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The Cat and the Candy Witch - Magic Costume Tree - A Halloween Bedtime Story · Dad’s Bedtime Stories

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  Speaker 1: Hello, friends from across the nation and around the world.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Martin, and you are listening to Dad's Bedtime Stories.
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  Speaker 1: And tonight, I am broadcasting from a different place. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not in the normal Dad's Bedtime Studios. Instead, I'm at
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  Speaker 1: a conference in Toronto. As a result, I feel like
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  Speaker 1: there's some extra background noise here because this place just
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  Speaker 1: has a sort of hum to it. Hopefully I'll be
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  Speaker 1: able to edit most of that out and the story
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  Speaker 1: quality will be okay. But if you notice something different,
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  Speaker 1: that's probably why. But now, as promised, we'll be heading
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  Speaker 1: back into the Magic Costume Tree universe for our last
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  Speaker 1: episode before Halloween. Let's check it out.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, my name is Harriet and I'm from Charlottesville, Virginia.
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  Speaker 2: I would like to suggest a magic costume tree episode
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  Speaker 2: where you dress up as a dog and you can
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  Speaker 2: understand all the dogs. And if not, you dress up
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  Speaker 2: as a cat and you meet a stray cat called Rex,
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  Speaker 2: who you find out is trying to stop a witch
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  Speaker 2: that is trying to make everybody eat candy that will make.
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  Speaker 1: Them Thank you to Harriet for that wonderful suggestion. Before
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  Speaker 1: we get started, though, I do want to give a
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  Speaker 1: So keep on listening... And, you know, putting up with
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  Speaker 1: comfy as you can in that bed, close your eyes,
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  Speaker 1: and imagine yourself doing what the kid in the story does. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: and if you hear sirens in the background, it's probably
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  Speaker 1: not you. It's me. They just keep happening here. Imagine
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  Speaker 1: yourself waking up in your, you know, normal bed. You
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  Speaker 1: get up, get dressed, have some breakfast, and then you
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  Speaker 1: head outside. And that's when you start to notice some
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  Speaker 1: strange things. First, you notice a boy who just sort
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  Speaker 1: of stops laughing halfway through a joke. One moment he's
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  Speaker 1: standing there beside two other children, holding a purple candy
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  Speaker 1: of some kind. And the next, his smile just disappears.
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  Speaker 1: His arms drop to his side. He turns and walks away.
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  Speaker 1: Where are you going? His friend asks, but he doesn't answer.
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  Speaker 1: Then she eats a piece of the same purple candy.
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  Speaker 1: and her face goes blank too. More candy must be made,
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  Speaker 1: she says. She follows him down the pavement. The third
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  Speaker 1: child looks at the sweets in his hand. You open
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  Speaker 1: your mouth to warn him that maybe it's not such
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  Speaker 1: a good idea to eat that, but it's too late.
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  Speaker 1: He chews, swallows. and also straightens. More candy must be made.
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  Speaker 1: He drops an unfinished chocolate bar and walks after the others.
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  Speaker 1: You stare. Dropping perfectly good chocolate seems particularly worrying. You
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  Speaker 1: follow the three of them around the corner and nearly
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  Speaker 1: walk into a tree. Not a little roadside tree. An
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  Speaker 1: enormous ancient tree with twisting branches, thick roots, and a
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  Speaker 1: small wooden door. You look behind you to see that
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  Speaker 1: the street is completely gone. Forest stretches in every direction.
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  Speaker 1: The magic costume tree. You hurry to the door and
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  Speaker 1: pull it open. Inside, costumes hang along carved wooden racks.
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  Speaker 1: You pass feathers, glittering scales, silver helmets, and something with
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  Speaker 1: far too many elbows for some reason. A beam of
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  Speaker 1: light shines into a cat costume. It has soft gray fur,
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  Speaker 1: pointed ears, little paws, and a long tail. There's a
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  Speaker 1: dog costume beside it, but for some reason the cat
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  Speaker 1: costume is highlighted. A cat, you ask? You want me
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  Speaker 1: to dress up as a cat? What possible problem could
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  Speaker 1: a cat help with? Well, hopefully cats are good at
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  Speaker 1: whatever problem's going on. You quickly put on the suit.
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  Speaker 1: It settles around your body immediately, adjusting until it fits perfectly.
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  Speaker 1: A tingling feeling travels through your fingers. Your ears twitch.
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  Speaker 1: Something scratches against the floor behind you. You turn quickly.
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  Speaker 1: Your tail. You turn again, trying to see it properly.
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  Speaker 1: And it follows you. It's... Not a costume tail, it
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  Speaker 1: actually feels connected. You can wiggle it around and stuff.
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  Speaker 1: You head outside the magic costume tree, feeling rather nimble
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  Speaker 1: compared to how you felt before you put on the costume.
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  Speaker 1: You crouch and jump. You spring much higher than you'd
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  Speaker 1: normally expect and land on a low branch of the tree.
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  Speaker 1: Your feet settle neatly beneath you, no wobbling or grabbing
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  Speaker 1: wildly for balance. You look toward the next branch, and
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  Speaker 1: your body seems to know exactly how to reach it.
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  Speaker 1: You leap from branch to branch, again and again, until
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  Speaker 1: you're looking down from halfway up the tree. Climbing suddenly
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  Speaker 1: feels as easy as walking up stairs, and somehow you're
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  Speaker 1: just confident you're going to hit the next branch. You
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  Speaker 1: swing down and drop toward a lower branch, twist into
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  Speaker 1: a backflip, and land lightly on your feet. Nice, you say.
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  Speaker 1: Then you start to get another feeling. a strange tingling
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  Speaker 1: one rising inside you. You let the magic work, and
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  Speaker 1: your body starts to shrink. Your back bends, your hands
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  Speaker 1: become paws, and the ground draws closer until you're standing
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  Speaker 1: on four small feet. a gray cat. You've turned into
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  Speaker 1: an actual cat. Walking feels different at first, but you
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  Speaker 1: begin taking steps, one and then another. Your tail lifts
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  Speaker 1: naturally behind you, and you trot down the forest path,
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  Speaker 1: away from the costume tree, listening to birds moving through
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  Speaker 1: branches above. Before long, the trees open into a familiar street.
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  Speaker 1: The children are still walking in that strange zombie-like state,
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  Speaker 1: and several more have joined them. On a nearby wall,
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  Speaker 1: three cats watch the walking children. I don't like it,
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  Speaker 1: says a black and white cat. Neither do I, says
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  Speaker 1: an orange one. They aren't even stopping to admire us. Nah,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think that's really the problem, says the third.
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  Speaker 1: He's a scruffy brown tabby cat with one bent ear.
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  Speaker 1: You jump onto the wall beside them. What's the problem?
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  Speaker 1: You ask. All three turn toward you. You freeze. You've
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  Speaker 1: just spoken to cats, and somehow you understand their answers.
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  Speaker 1: You open your mouth again, wondering if it's really working. Hello?
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  Speaker 1: To your ears, it sounds like you've spoken a word.
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  Speaker 1: the word hello but to a passing woman apparently it's
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  Speaker 1: a meow hello kitty she says and she keeps on
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  Speaker 1: walking you glance down at your paws useful costume if
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  Speaker 1: you well want to talk to cats the scruffy tabby
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  Speaker 1: cat studies you uh i'm rex do you know what's
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  Speaker 1: happening here you ask His whiskers twitch. Yes, and we
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  Speaker 1: need to stop it. He jumps down. You follow him.
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  Speaker 1: I used to be human, he says quietly. Although you're
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  Speaker 1: probably not going to believe that. None of the other
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  Speaker 1: cats do. You used to be human? Years ago. Ugh.
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  Speaker 1: I ate some candy close to Halloween that somebody left
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  Speaker 1: outside a shop. My parents always told me not to
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  Speaker 1: take candy from strangers, but it was purple and it
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  Speaker 1: looked really delicious. Next thing I knew, I was walking
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  Speaker 1: toward a strange house in the woods. Ahead, the children
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  Speaker 1: turn onto a narrow trail. It was a candy house,
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  Speaker 1: Rex continues. And inside it, if you can believe this,
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  Speaker 1: was a witch. She made us work for her. Cooking, cleaning,
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  Speaker 1: making more sweets. What happened? Well, she got upset with
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  Speaker 1: me when I broke something once and decided to test
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  Speaker 1: a spell on me. Eh. This was kind of the result.
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  Speaker 1: You look at the cat's bent ear. Rex notices. That
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  Speaker 1: part happened later. Argument with an alley cat. They're not nice.
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  Speaker 1: He leads you beneath a fence. After she turned me
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  Speaker 1: into a cat, I squeezed through a gap and escaped.
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  Speaker 1: Something about the transformation broke the spell she had over me.
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  Speaker 1: But I couldn't leave the others forever. I've been watching
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  Speaker 1: carefully ever since, trying to find a way to help.
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  Speaker 1: And unfortunately, it looks like she's up to her old tricks.
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  Speaker 1: So you haven't really been successful in helping yet? Well... NO.
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  Speaker 1: I KNOW WHERE SHE KEEPS THE ANTIDOTE, I JUST CAN'T
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  Speaker 1: GET IT WHILE SHE HAS HER WAND. AS SOON AS
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  Speaker 1: SHE SEES ME COMING, SHE'LL TURN ME INTO A NEWT
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  Speaker 1: OR SOMETHING. YOU LOOK TOWARDS THE CHILDREN DISAPPEARING AMONG THE TREES.
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  Speaker 1: THEN MAYBE WE SHOULD GET HER WAND AND SAVE THESE CHILDREN.
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  Speaker 1: REX LIFTS HIS EARS. for a cat I met about
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  Speaker 1: a minute ago. I think I like you. Deep in
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  Speaker 1: the woods, you eventually find a cottage in a clearing.
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  Speaker 1: Its walls look like they're made of gingerbread. Its windows
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  Speaker 1: are made of clear sugar. Thick icing runs along the roof,
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  Speaker 1: and striped candy sticks frame the doorway. It smells wonderful,
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  Speaker 1: but Looks exactly like the kind of house that fairy
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  Speaker 1: tales told you to stay clear of. Through an open window,
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  Speaker 1: you see the children filing inside. A witch stands beside
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  Speaker 1: an enormous cauldron, stirring a purple mixture of some kind
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  Speaker 1: with a big wooden spoon. She's wearing a pointy hat
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  Speaker 1: that droops over one eye and makes her look Well,
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  Speaker 1: exactly how you'd imagine a witch to look. Aprons on,
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  Speaker 1: she says. I need the floors scrubbed, wrappers folded, and
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  Speaker 1: somebody better polish that licorice over there. The children just
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  Speaker 1: silently obey. The witch points at two newcomers. You two, welcome.
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  Speaker 1: You can help with tomorrow's experiments. Beside you, Rex's claws
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  Speaker 1: press into the earth. Not this time, he whispers. He
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  Speaker 1: nods toward a high shelf. A glass jar sits above
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  Speaker 1: the cupboards, filled with little golden fish-shaped sweets. Its label reads...
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  Speaker 1: Not for children or anyone else. That's the antidote, Rex says.
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  Speaker 1: She keeps it for, uh, well, mistakes. Or in case
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  Speaker 1: the candy gets on her. Does she make many? Rex
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  Speaker 1: looks at himself. Some. The witch sets her wand on
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  Speaker 1: the table and turns toward the cupboard. You crouch. Alright,
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  Speaker 1: I'll get the wand, and I'll get the fish. You
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  Speaker 1: slip through the window. Your paws land without a sound.
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  Speaker 1: You dart beneath a chair, climb a hanging tablecloth, and
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  Speaker 1: creep across the tabletop. The wand lies beside a stack
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  Speaker 1: of purple candy wrappers. You close your teeth around it.
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  Speaker 1: Behind you, A cupboard door bangs. What are you doing here?
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  Speaker 1: You turn and the witch stares at you. Then at
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  Speaker 1: the wand in your mouth. Oh, no, you don't. You jump.
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  Speaker 1: Her fingers close on empty air. You land on a
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  Speaker 1: chair and spring up onto a shelf. Hey, come back here,
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  Speaker 1: she yells as she charges at you. You race past
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  Speaker 1: jars of sprinkles, duck beneath a cupboard, and the witch
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  Speaker 1: drops to her knees. Here, kitty, kitty. You stare at
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  Speaker 1: her from the shadows. She stretches a hand toward you.
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  Speaker 1: Nice kitty. You draw your claws, scratch her on the hand. Ouch!
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  Speaker 1: Horrible kitty, she says as you slip out through the
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  Speaker 1: other side. You leap onto the kitchen counter. Behind her,
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  Speaker 1: you see Rex climbing up a curtain. You knock a
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  Speaker 1: wooden spoon onto the floor. The witch whirls toward the noise.
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  Speaker 1: You hop onto a hanging pot. It swings. Another pot
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  Speaker 1: clangs against it. You spring away just as she reaches up.
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  Speaker 1: Her hat catches on a hook. For a moment, she
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  Speaker 1: keeps running without it, but then she realizes it fell off, stops,
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  Speaker 1: and snatches it back. You are going to be turned
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  Speaker 1: into a tea cozy when I catch you. Above the cupboards,
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  Speaker 1: Rex reaches the antidote. He pushes the jar carefully onto
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  Speaker 1: a folded apron, then noses off its loose lid. Golden
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  Speaker 1: sweets spill onto the fabric. Good. Now you just have
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  Speaker 1: to stop the witch so you can, well, use it.
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  Speaker 1: You race toward the cauldron. A purple mixture fills it
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  Speaker 1: almost to the rim. The candy is thick and glossy,
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  Speaker 1: but it doesn't have any steam rising from it. And
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  Speaker 1: that's when you get an idea. Maybe it's time to
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  Speaker 1: give the witch a taste of her own candy. You
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  Speaker 1: jump onto a stool beside the rim. The witch rushes
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  Speaker 1: toward you. Got you, she says, but at the last second,
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  Speaker 1: you leap sideways, instantly transforming back into a, well, sort
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  Speaker 1: of human cat, leaving your foot stretched out, perfectly in
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  Speaker 1: the position to trip the witch. The witch hits your foot, stumbles...
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  Speaker 1: spinning her arms in the air like a windmill, and then,
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  Speaker 1: with a splash, she falls straight over the edge of
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  Speaker 1: the cauldron. For a moment, two boots are all that
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  Speaker 1: sticks out of the thing. The rest of her body
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  Speaker 1: is buried in the purple liquid. Soon, she grabs the
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  Speaker 1: rim and hauls herself upright, dripping with all sorts of syrup.
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  Speaker 1: You land on the table and set down the wand.
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  Speaker 1: The witch opens her mouth, and her expression goes completely blank.
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  Speaker 1: What would you like me to do? She asks. You
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  Speaker 1: look over at Rex, and Rex looks at you. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I guess that worked. Wasn't exactly my plan, but It worked.
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  Speaker 1: You pick up the wand with your hand. Climb out carefully,
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  Speaker 1: you tell the witch, and she obeys. Now I want
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  Speaker 1: you to make enough antidote to free everyone who's ever
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  Speaker 1: eaten your candy. She reaches for a clean mixing bowl,
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  Speaker 1: and no more spells on anyone, you say. Yes, she
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  Speaker 1: says flatly. No more spells. Rex nudges the apron towards you.
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  Speaker 1: You carry the golden sweets to the nearest children. Here,
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  Speaker 1: eat these, you say. And the children just seem to
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  Speaker 1: sort of listen. Perhaps without the witch giving orders, they
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  Speaker 1: need someone else to take the orders from. They quickly
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  Speaker 1: down the candy and then, well, they look stunned. Why
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  Speaker 1: am I holding a mop? one of them says, or asks. Eh,
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  Speaker 1: long story, you respond. Last thing I remember, I was
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  Speaker 1: just outside a candy shop. Before long, the kitchen fills
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  Speaker 1: with confused voices. confused voices that are no longer under
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  Speaker 1: the witch's control. You do your best to explain exactly
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  Speaker 1: what happened while passing out the antidote. Here, take these
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  Speaker 1: and give them to any child who, well, who looks
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  Speaker 1: like they're under the control of magical candy. It might
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  Speaker 1: not sound obvious, but when you see it, it's honestly
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  Speaker 1: pretty obvious. Before long, everyone is fully awake. Everyone except
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  Speaker 1: the witch, of course, who is busily making golden fish
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  Speaker 1: candy once again. You look down at Rex. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I think there's still one more thing we need to fix.
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  Speaker 1: His tail becomes very still. You turn to the witch.
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  Speaker 1: You will undo every transformation you put on Rex, you say.
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  Speaker 1: She looks toward the wand. I require the wand. You're
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  Speaker 1: not sure that's a good idea. On second thought, just
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  Speaker 1: tell me how to do it. So the witch explains.
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  Speaker 1: It's not really any particular series of words. It's more
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  Speaker 1: the feeling, the thought inside your head that matters. You
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  Speaker 1: must imagine the result as clearly as you can. Point
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  Speaker 1: the wand, flick it, and allow the energy from your
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  Speaker 1: own body to power it. You try to do just that.
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  Speaker 1: You point the wand down at Rex. You focus on
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  Speaker 1: the cat turning back into, well, a normal kid. And
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  Speaker 1: you feel a strange tugging sensation coming from the wand.
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  Speaker 1: You allow the energy from your body to pass into
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  Speaker 1: the thing. You flick it, and a blast of orange
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  Speaker 1: light shoots out. hitting the little scruffy cat. Immediately, a
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  Speaker 1: warm golden shimmer surrounds him. His paws lengthen, his ears shrink,
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  Speaker 1: his scruffy fur starts to disappear underneath ordinary clothes. And
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  Speaker 1: a moment later, a young man about your age sits
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  Speaker 1: on the kitchen floor. He looks at his hands. turns
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  Speaker 1: them over, wiggles his finger, and laughs. Thumbs, he says.
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  Speaker 1: I have thumbs. He grips the edge of the table.
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  Speaker 1: I missed thumbs. Thumbs are the best. Thank you, he says.
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  Speaker 1: You simply smile back at him. You did the difficult part,
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  Speaker 1: you say. Not really. You're the one who tripped the
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  Speaker 1: witch and put her under your command. Good point, but
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't have known to do it if I hadn't
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  Speaker 1: met you. The witch soon finishes the antidote. You pack
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  Speaker 1: it into bags and take it with you in case
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  Speaker 1: you run into any more controlled children walking around in
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  Speaker 1: zombie-like states. All right. Next, you must destroy the enchanted candy,
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  Speaker 1: all of your recipes, and any spare magic things or
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  Speaker 1: wands you can find. Finally, you break the wand in
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  Speaker 1: your hand, and the witch starts making her way all
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  Speaker 1: through the house and gathering things, throwing them into her
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  Speaker 1: little fireplace one by one. REX OPENS THE DOOR COME
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  Speaker 1: ON LET'S GET YOU HOME OUTSIDE HE PAUSES ARE YOU
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  Speaker 1: COMING IN A BIT I HAVE SOMETHING TO RETURN FIRST
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  Speaker 1: YOU SAY REX ONLY SMILES THEN HE LEADS THE CHILDREN
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  Speaker 1: OUTSIDE AND HEADS HOME HIMSELF You're not sure how long
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  Speaker 1: he's been away for. His parents may have quite the
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  Speaker 1: surprise coming. You soon head outside the witch's cottage, and
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  Speaker 1: a strange tugging sensation appears on your costume. It lifts
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  Speaker 1: you up into the air, and soon you find yourself
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  Speaker 1: floating out over top of a forest. over top of
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  Speaker 1: your neighborhood, to a clearing where the magic costume tree
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  Speaker 1: now stands. A clearing where it did not stand before.
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  Speaker 1: This place was definitely somewhere else before, but, well, the
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  Speaker 1: costume tree just looks natural there. You gently lower down
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  Speaker 1: towards the tree. The door opens up. You fly inside,
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  Speaker 1: and you unzip the cat costume. Immediately, your newfound sense
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  Speaker 1: of agility disappears. You step out of the costume. hang
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  Speaker 1: it back up where you found it and walk outside
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  Speaker 1: you head back down the trail knowing that you'll soon
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  Speaker 1: appear right where you need to be and sure enough
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  Speaker 1: You come out of the little forest clearing, directly beside
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  Speaker 1: your house. You turn around to see everything returned to normal.
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  Speaker 1: The path to the magic costume tree has disappeared once again.
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  Speaker 1: You head inside, straight to your bedroom, and climb into
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  Speaker 1: your bed. You close your eyes, you pull the covers
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  Speaker 1: up to your chin, and you begin to simply focus
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  Speaker 1: on your breath, noticing your stomach rise with the inhale and, well,
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  Speaker 1: lower with the exhale. Before very long at all, the
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  Speaker 1: tension in your muscles starts to melt away, You let
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  Speaker 1: go of the tension in your arms. You let go
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  Speaker 1: of the tension in your legs. Your shoulders drop away
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  Speaker 1: from your ears. Your face relaxes into a nice sort
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  Speaker 1: of half smile and your mind wanders off to thoughts
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  Speaker 1: of new dreams, new adventures, and new costumes to come.
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  Speaker 1: Good night, everyone. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. Thank you.
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