I know I was going to have the next chapter be about Zeb's encounter with the Wizard Spirit but since I really don't feel life that for reasons I care not disclose I'm going to do something a little bit cheeky and say since the Wizard Spirit wanted that conversation to be a secret his magic prevented the author from knowing what happened...Really in the original Oz books L Frank Baum did similar things in claiming he was a 'historian of Oz' saying things like Oz now had a wireless telegraph to keep communicating with him after he had a magical barrier put around Oz in The Emerald City of Oz which was originally intended to be the series finale

Seems the Sorcerer Spirit wanted utmost privacy for this conversation because...The scene is being forcibly shifted back to Ichabod and Marzipan as the two lay in their sofa bed...Marzipan was tossing and turning...She's having a nightmare but one unlike any she had ever experienced before!

She hears a song she's vaguely familiar with because she's heard it before on Mizzer but never the full song also Marzipan doesn't speak French…

"Alouette, gentille alouette,

Alouette, je te plumerai"

The song seems to be like the sea...Marzipan feels like she's riding the melody and then her vision clears...She has a vision of a Tiger Cub...She doesn't have the same shine as a Humanimal...But dang does it look close...But also it has to be Third Earth because a nearby calendar says the year in 1995 and thus it couldn't be First Earth because Humanimals did not exist until the summer of 1998 when the Crystal Meteorite came to Earth crash landing Griffith Park in California...Really that seemed to be something that set off the Humanimal Spiritual Elders because the evidence was growing that the Mutant Animals had come into existence in their world long before the Humanimals did in their world...New research was uncovering evidence of Mutant Animals in the Victorian Era being the source of 'Werewolf Sightings' when it seems in truth they were victims of the Utroms earlier forms of Mutagen…

But anyway back to the dream...The Little Tiger Cub was crying to what seemed like a kindly old man with a white beard.

"Dad…" The Tiger Cub said as she wiped her eyes "...I keep hearing things from the other doctors and nurses...They keep thinking I'm gonna be dangerous when I get big...That I can't be a nurse because no one's gonna except a tiger as a nurse! Is it true Dad? Will I not be able to do my job?"
And the man soothed her in a French-Canadian accent "Pay them no heed Stripes! They still don't understand the reason I chose you…"
He picked up the Tiger Cub and put in his his lap as he sat down in a rocking chair and began gently rocking "I chose you for mutation BECAUSE you were larger and stronger than all your sisters...They're small and cute and good for soothing frazzled nerves...But you! You have the most important job! If a patient is completely out of control and running wild through the halls...Your job is to catch them and hold them with a big bear hug with what will your big strong furry arms! You will be able to hold any human no matter how big and strong they are because you will be stronger than any human!"
Then Marzipan began to feel herself being shaken

"Marzipan!" It was Jonathan's voice "Marzipan!"
Marzipan eyes snapped open as she woke up

"You were having a nightmare…" Jonathan said "...You were kicking Ichabod...What's wrong Dear?"
"Marzipan rubbed her eyes as she fumed "Stupid...Magic...Crossed wire!"
"Excuse me? What?" Jonathan asked with an eyebrow raised

"Crossed wire…" Marzipan said with more clarity "...For Mages and Psychic with the ability to see visions sometimes for whatever reason the magic goes haywire and we accidentally eavesdrop on someone else's dream!"
"Indeed…" Jonathan said as he thought for moment weather that would be better or worse than suffering a fear gas hallucination...Probably depended on the dream "...The more I learn about magic the stranger and stranger it gets!"
"What was the dream like?" Came Ichabod's voice Marzipan looked behind the sofa and there in the kitchen Ichabod was eating a tuna sandwich he had made for a midnight snack

"Oh Ichy!" Marzipan exclaimed "Did I hurt you? Was I kicking you in the butt?"
"No you were kicking me in the shins." Ichabod said as he took a bite of his sandwich "I mean it didn't hurt you were keeping your paws vevelted but still...It was kind of hard to sleep like that…"
Marzipan sighed and walked over to the kitchen

"I mean...I know it's rude to tell...But I think I was seeing the dream of a Mutant Animal from Third Earth...A Tiger Mutant!"
"Well…" Jonathan said as he came over "...Maybe the dream wires got crossed because of your shared connection as felines…"
"Maybe…" Marzipan said "...But I don't think that's how it works...Anyway she was crying and being comforted by a human who was life her Father in the sense he was her...Creator...He seemed kind but he...Also reminded me of you Jonathan...The kindness was real but there was also...A dark side I could sense…"
Jonathan turned very pale "If you indeed sensed he was like me…." Jonathan said gravely "...That very likely does not bode well for the Tigress…"
So I realized while writing the chapter that the dream could reveal for certain it wasn't a Humanimal Dream by ironically going to the past because doing the math if Stripes is sixteen years old in the present of 2006 then logically that would mean she was born in 1990 also just realized the Sorcerer Spirit Probably caused the magic crossed wire to prevent Marzipan from getting a vision of his conversation with Zeb...Not saying the Wizard Spirit is evil just saying what he probably communicated to Zeb that if she wants to get that third flower for Ichabod and Marzipan she's probably going to do something potentially dangerous that Ichabod and Marzipan would not have approved of