So...Gonna do something in this chapter which will leave readers wondering What just happened? How was this able to happen? Well the complete answer is a bit complex but let's just say that Lovelace's Wish let certain people...Let's say the Fairies grant Lovelace this Boon so her actions can help Ichabod and Marzipan

So after supper Jonathan and Ichabod unfolded the sofa bed, Jonathan asked if they were sure they wanted the sofa bed because the cottage had another bedroom.

"I guess we just like sleeping where the HV is…" Ichabod chuckled "...Sometimes we like to play soothing videos…"

Then Jonathan gave them some adult nightshirts that were too big for their current sizes, particularly Marzipan at her size the nightshirt was more like a nightgown but they were made of a thin delicate cloth that kept them cool in the warm summer night.

"You know…" Ichabod chuckled after they had changed into their sleeping clothes "...Growing up on Planet Alderbaren, I never had the pleasure of having a sleepover...Or a slumber party, whatever you call it…"

"I think if you're having only one other person over it's a sleepover, more people than that you can call it a slumber party…" Marzipan said

"Well…" Ichabod said as he climbed into the bed "...The HV is here so we can play those soothing ASMR videos if you need them…"

"I think I can manage with silence tonight…" Marzipan said as she climbed into the bed.

"Good night My Dear…" Ichabod said as he kissed her cheek.

And with that, Marzipan got a sense of why Ichabod chose to take the potion and regress himself to an eight-year old...So he could continue to kiss and hug her with a clear conscience, he loved her so much that if she had to be in the body of a child, then he would also be a child for as long as it took to find the cure…

Trying to sound calm as possible she said "I hope they can find the cure before the dance contest…"

Ichabod just chuckled again "Don't worry about it! The contest is one week away! Marzipan please relax! I can't believe for once you're being the worrywart!"

That comment really struck Marzipan! She realized Ichabod seemed positively jovial since regressing to an eight-year old!

And then as he turned over to his side the words he said with a sleepy yawn really revealed the reason he seemed unusually not worried despite what should be a crisis "Imagine...A chance to do it all over again…"

As Ichabod drifted off to sleep Marzipan realized that Ichabod had, had a very unpleasant childhood, his parents while not perfect clearly loved him, and what friendship he had with the other rogues' children he only occasionally got to see them...She realized he never got to enjoy half the luxuries she enjoyed on Mizzer she enjoyed as a Kitten on Mizzer before the Wrangler Invasion she realized while he had genuinely regressed himself for her, he also was genuinely excited by this chance to be a child again and this time he wanted to do the things he never got to do as a child!

Meanwhile on Third Earth, in one of the many Tree Apartments of Forest, for the Mutants who were children because they had been either born Mutants or mutated as infants similar to the Turtles and thus had no biological parents to take care of them, a lot of these 'Mutant Cubs' lived in what were essentially Mutant group homes, sometimes space was crowded and some of the Mutants particularly if they were smaller species had to sleep on sofas or chairs, but no one was worried for the children's safety in these situations, seemed the Mutant 'Orphans' really were being raised by the entire community and even if they weren't followers of Bushido Mutant Animals seemed to have more honor on the whole than most humans.

Lovelace actually slept on a large's dog's bed her place was so crowded...As she slept in her corner of the apartment, in the basement level so in her corner were the roots of the tree, she quietly dreamed about how her affluent friend, who because she had a loving human family lived in a New York Penthouse and didn't have to worry about finding a place to sleep, her friend just gave ans gave and gave and despite her insistence that Lovelace didn't have to give anything in return other than her friendship, Lovelace didn't think her Scruffles realized just how guilty this imbalance of give and take was making Lovelace feel…

In her uneasy sleep she dreamed… "I have metal arms…" She murmured in her sleep like she was in a trance, "They're like the turtles' weapons...If only I could reach out with my arms and tear open a hole…"

And as she said this she did what she was saying she reached out with her robotic arms and made a potions like she was tearing a hole in the air, and as she did...She actually did so! Creating a portal that seemed to open up to a sweet smelling meadow.

Now very clearly in a trance and thus not questioning how she just did that...Lovelace slithered through…

When she came to the meadow, her serpentine tongue flickered in and out trying to locate to source of that sweet fragrance…

Her question was soon answered when certain plants in the meadow opened up revealing vibrant red and gold that glowed in the dark! They were flowers! Flowers with deep scarlet petals with gold stripes!

The young Mutant Garter Snake hissed with delight! It seems her wish to find the most beautiful bloom in the world had been answered! Surely there could be no more beautiful flower than this! Slithering back through the portal to the apartment to get a trowel and a two flowerpots she had gotten prepared in case she did find a worthy flower before Scruffles' birthday, she carefully dug two flowers because she knew her Puppy Dog friend wanted living flowers not cut ones.

So these night blooming flowers are inspired by the Golden Night Flowers from Land Before Time 4 (Man thinking back to the time I thought the Land Before Time sequels were good) and I also like that I've established there very clear role reversal for Marzipan and Ichabod that normally the worrywart Ichabod who should be treating this like a crisis is actually wanting to have fun with being a child again