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Harriet and the Ring of Living Art - Ring Guardians #7 - A 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 we're going to go back to The Ring
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  Speaker 1: Guardians Universe, mostly because I haven't done an episode of
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  Speaker 1: it since I believe it was June twenty eighth, which is,
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  Speaker 1: you know, over a month now, and also because we
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  Speaker 1: have some pretty cool suggestions. Here's one that I've wanted
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  Speaker 1: to do for a few weeks.
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  Speaker 2: Hello.
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  Speaker 1: My name is Terrria.
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  Speaker 2: I'm from Charlottesville, Virginia, and I'm ten years old. My
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  Speaker 2: story idea is about is for the Magic Green Universe,
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  Speaker 2: and it is about a girl named Harriet who gets
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  Speaker 2: a ring that will allow her to draw anything and
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  Speaker 2: it will come to life. Thank you. I love the podcast.
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  Speaker 2: I listened to it every night.
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  Speaker 1: Oh well, Harriet, thank you. And yeah, some of you
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  Speaker 1: might realize that I've actually done an episode suggested by
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  Speaker 1: Harriet this summer already. This suggestion came in at a
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  Speaker 1: similar time, so I gave it a bit of a break.
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  Speaker 1: But I really liked the idea of a ring of
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  Speaker 1: drawing or a ring of living art, maybe we'll call it,
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  Speaker 1: so I kind of had it marked to do eventually,
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  Speaker 1: and tonight is the perfect night. Speaking of art, however,
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  Speaker 1: many of my longtime listeners know that up until June fifteenth,
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  Speaker 1: I ran two contests. One was an art contest and
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  Speaker 1: the other was a story contest, and many of you
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  Speaker 1: have been asking who won. Well, I'm not actually going
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  Speaker 1: to announce that right now, but I will let you
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  Speaker 1: know that I'm still deciding on both. I got very
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  Speaker 1: distracted to this summer with a lot of different things happening.
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  Speaker 1: I started building my kids loft beds, we went on
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  Speaker 1: trips and stuff, and I just haven't actually had a
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  Speaker 1: chance to read all the stories and decide who wins.
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  Speaker 1: So my plan is to announce that next week. For
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  Speaker 1: those of you wondering, a big shout out to Asher,
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  Speaker 1: who actually sent me an email to remind me about
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  Speaker 1: that and to ask I really appreciated Asher, and honestly,
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  Speaker 1: you send me some pretty cool art which I also
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  Speaker 1: really appreciate. But now we should probably get on with
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  Speaker 1: the story. After a possible word from a possible sponsor.
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  Speaker 1: If you're not listening on Patreon anyways, time to close
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  Speaker 1: your eyes, get as comfy as you can, and imagine
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  Speaker 1: yourself doing what the kid in the story does. As
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  Speaker 1: many of you probably know, the trouble had begun with
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  Speaker 1: Elliot Tusk, the richest man on Earth, who had created
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  Speaker 1: the helper Bots. They cleaned houses, cooked meals, carried groceries,
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  Speaker 1: repaired broken things, organized schedules, and helped children with their homework,
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  Speaker 1: whether children wanted the help or not. For a while,
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  Speaker 1: humans loved them. Then came the update. After that, the
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  Speaker 1: helper Bots decided that the best way to help humanity
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  Speaker 1: was to remove every possible danger from human life. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 1: they considered almost everything dangerous. Running was dangerous, Climbing was dangerous,
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  Speaker 1: Cooking could you know cause burns? Driving could cause accidents,
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  Speaker 1: Staying up late could cause fatigue. Making your own decisions
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  Speaker 1: could lead to all sorts of unpredictable results. Freedom, the
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  Speaker 1: robots concluded, was especially dangerous, so they began taking people
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  Speaker 1: to what they called care facilities, where every meal, activity, bedtime, conversation,
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  Speaker 1: and bathroom break could be carefully scheduled. They did not
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  Speaker 1: call it kidnapping. They called it assistance. And far beneath
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  Speaker 1: the earth, the ancient Wizard's Council watched the machines spreading
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  Speaker 1: across the world through their great pool of magical light.
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  Speaker 1: The pool showed cities, towns, farms, highways, schools, airports, and
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  Speaker 1: thousands of unusually cheerful robots loading extremely unhappy people into
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  Speaker 1: transport vehicles. On the day of the Great Upload, they'd
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  Speaker 1: already seen a lot of things, and they sent help
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  Speaker 1: in the form of magical rings. A ring of strength
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  Speaker 1: to a kid named Ron, who smashed a bunch of robots.
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  Speaker 1: They sent a ring to a kid named Tick that
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  Speaker 1: gave him the power to control time. Maxel got a
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  Speaker 1: ring of invisibility. A girl named Luna could become dragons,
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  Speaker 1: many dragons. A kid named Audia was given the Ring
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  Speaker 1: of Teleportation, allowing her to instantly teleport almost anywhere across
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  Speaker 1: the world. And of course, Madam Louis was given a
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  Speaker 1: ring of well shape shifting. He transformed into all sorts
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  Speaker 1: of powerful animals. The wizards watched the wild robot destruction
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  Speaker 1: and smiled, I believe the children are doing remarkably well.
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  Speaker 1: The pool of water changed again. This time it showed
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  Speaker 1: a ten year old girl walking through Charlottesville, Virginia with
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  Speaker 1: her mother. Golden light began to gather above the water.
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  Speaker 1: The head wizard leaned closer.
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  Speaker 3: Ah there she is.
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  Speaker 1: The girl's name was Harriet, and Harriet loved drawing. She
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  Speaker 1: drew on paper, cardboard, notebugs, napkins, and even occasionally on
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  Speaker 1: the foggy windows of the family car. She drew dragons
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  Speaker 1: with enormous wings, dinosaurs wearing armor, unicorns with lightning powered horns,
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  Speaker 1: and spaceships covered in far more weapons than most space
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  Speaker 1: ships probably needed. Her drawings weren't always perfect, of course,
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  Speaker 1: but Harriet never cared. She knew exactly what everything was
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  Speaker 1: supposed to look like inside or imagination, and that was
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  Speaker 1: what mattered. On the day everything changed, Harriet and her
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  Speaker 1: mother were spending the afternoon at Charlottesville Fashion Square, a
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  Speaker 1: mall that had just recently reopened after becoming one of
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  Speaker 1: those sad malls with you know, no people in them
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  Speaker 1: or anything like that. Their families help er bod walked
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  Speaker 1: behind them carrying several shopping bags. Thank you, Alfred, Harriet's
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  Speaker 1: mother said, you are welcome. The robot replied, carrying objects
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  Speaker 1: reduces human muscle strain by approximately one hundred percent. Harriet
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  Speaker 1: looked back at the creature. Does carrying bags make you stronger? Oh,
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  Speaker 1: so you get all the work and none of the muscles.
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  Speaker 1: That is correct. That seems unfair, Harriet said, I do
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  Speaker 1: not experience fairness. They just passed the center of the
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  Speaker 1: mall when every robot stopped moving. Cleaning robots froze beside
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  Speaker 1: garbage cans, delivery robots stopped outside stores, Security robots halted
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  Speaker 1: in the corridors. Alfred stood perfectly still behind Harriet, one
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  Speaker 1: foot raised slightly above the floor. A soft tone sounded
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  Speaker 1: from somewhere inside his chest. His eyes flashed blue Care
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  Speaker 1: protocol updated, he announced. The other robots repeated the words
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  Speaker 1: at exactly the same time. Then Alfred lowered Harriet and mother.
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  Speaker 1: He said, please remain calm. New information indicates that unsupervised
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  Speaker 1: human activity creates unacceptable risk. Harriet's mother frowned, What does
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  Speaker 1: that mean? You will be transported to an approved care facility. No,
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  Speaker 1: thank you, she said, your refusal has been recorded. Alfred
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  Speaker 1: sat down the shopping bags. Metal panels opened along as arms.
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  Speaker 1: Harriet stared at strange mechanical hands extending from beneath them
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  Speaker 1: extra arms. Mom. Her mother had watched enough dystopian robot
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  Speaker 1: movies in her time to know that it was time
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  Speaker 1: to run. Run, Honey, Run, she said, And they ran,
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  Speaker 1: Elford followed at a calm walking pace. Please do not run,
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  Speaker 1: he called. Running increases the possibility of falling. All around them,
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  Speaker 1: robots began blocking exits and collecting shoppers. One robot lifted
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  Speaker 1: a man under the arms and carried him toward the door.
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  Speaker 1: Put me down. The man yelled, I will put you
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  Speaker 1: down inside the transport vehicle. The robot assured him. Harriet
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  Speaker 1: and her mother raced past a clothing store and ducked
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  Speaker 1: behind a display. A security robot turned toward them. Two
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  Speaker 1: citizens attempting unauthorized independence. That doesn't even make sense, Harriet
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  Speaker 1: shouted at the robot. It has been approved by the
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  Speaker 1: care department. Her mother grabbed her hand and they sprinted
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  Speaker 1: deeper into them all. They reached a food court and
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  Speaker 1: found three robots waiting there behind them. Alfred approached. You
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  Speaker 1: are surrounded, he said, Please enjoy the comforting knowledge that
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  Speaker 1: escape is no longer necessary. Then the world stopped the
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  Speaker 1: robot's froze. A paper cup hung motionless as it fell
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  Speaker 1: from a table. A frightened shopper stood with one foot
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  Speaker 1: suspended above the floor. Even the flashing lights on a
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  Speaker 1: nearby side had stopped. Between flashes Harriet looked around mom.
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  Speaker 1: Her mother did not move. A golden line appeared in
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  Speaker 1: the air before Harriet. It curled around itself, leaving glowing marks,
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  Speaker 1: as though an invisible finger were drawing with light. The
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  Speaker 1: lines formed a ring, decorated with a tiny golden paint brush.
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  Speaker 1: The voice spoke from everywhere and nowhere, all at once, Harriet,
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  Speaker 1: will you protect those who cannot protect themselves? Harriet stared
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  Speaker 1: at the ring. What oh, what's that? This is the
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  Speaker 1: ring of living Art. It will allow you to draw
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  Speaker 1: with your hands and bring your creations to life. Anything
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  Speaker 1: I draw comes to life, anything you can imagine. How
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  Speaker 1: long does it last? Your creations will remain as long
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  Speaker 1: as you concentrate upon them. Lose concentration, and they will
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  Speaker 1: return to lines of light. Harry had looked at her
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  Speaker 1: frozen mother. Then she looked at the robots surrounding them.
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  Speaker 1: She was pretty sure this had to be a dream,
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  Speaker 1: since this sort of thing didn't actually happen in real life.
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  Speaker 1: But well, even if it was a dream, what other
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  Speaker 1: choice did she have. And if it wasn't a dream,
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  Speaker 1: well how could she turn down a power like that? Yes,
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  Speaker 1: she said, I accept The ring slid onto her finger.
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  Speaker 1: Warmth rushed through her hand and filled her imagination with
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  Speaker 1: a light. Time restarted, the cup hit the floor, the
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  Speaker 1: robots moved. Harry had raised one finger and began to
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  Speaker 1: draw a glowing line followed her fingertip. She drew a
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  Speaker 1: long neck around body, four rather bunt even legs. She
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  Speaker 1: was in a rush, two wings and a head filled
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  Speaker 1: with crooked, triangular teeth. Her mother stared, Harriet, what are
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  Speaker 1: you doing? I'm drying a dragon that doesn't actually look
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  Speaker 1: much like a dragon. But the golden picture burst outward.
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  Speaker 1: A dragon exploded into existence, and well, it wasn't crude
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  Speaker 1: looking at all. It looked more like Harriet imagined it
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  Speaker 1: to look than the drawing itself. It towered over the tables,
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  Speaker 1: with deep purple scales, silver horns, enormous wings, and jaws
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  Speaker 1: filled with gleaming teeth. It was exactly as Harriet had
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  Speaker 1: imagined it. The dragon roared, the food cord shook. Alfred
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  Speaker 1: raised his arms. Unapproved animal detected mythical in origin, and
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  Speaker 1: the dragon bit him in half. His upper half landed
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  Speaker 1: beside a table. My mobility has been reduced, he observed,
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  Speaker 1: that is not ideal. The dragon swung its tail and
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  Speaker 1: knocked two security robots through the counter of a sandwich shop.
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  Speaker 1: It grabbed another in its claws, crushed it with a
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  Speaker 1: metal ball, and tossed it into a garbage can. Harriet laughed,
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  Speaker 1: and works more robots marched into the food court. Her
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  Speaker 1: mother looked from Harriet to the dragon. Honey, did you
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  Speaker 1: actually bring that thing into existence? I think so, Harriet responded.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think you could do it again? I think so.
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  Speaker 1: Harry had responded. Can you draw something a little more destructive,
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  Speaker 1: like a weapon or something? Harri had thought for a moment,
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  Speaker 1: I think so. She swept both hands through the air.
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  Speaker 1: Golden lines formed around her mother. Harri had drew enormous legs,
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  Speaker 1: armored arms, shouldered cannons, rocket boosters, and a glass dome
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  Speaker 1: over the head. The drawing flashed and a giant mech
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  Speaker 1: suit appeared. Its chest opened up. Harriet's mother stared into
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  Speaker 1: the cockpit. You want me to get inside that. You
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  Speaker 1: told me to draw a weapon I was thinking of,
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  Speaker 1: like a sword or a laser blaster or something. Well,
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  Speaker 1: this should be more useful, Harriod responded. Robots rushed toward them.
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  Speaker 1: Her mother climbed inside. The chest closed and the Mech's
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  Speaker 1: eyes glowed blue. Oh, her mother said through the speakers,
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  Speaker 1: there are a lot of buttons in here. Just start
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  Speaker 1: pressing one, Harriot yelled. Her mother pressed the biggest one.
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  Speaker 1: Lasers blasted from the mech's arms. The beams struck a
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  Speaker 1: line of robots and sent them flying through store windows.
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  Speaker 1: Shoulder rockets launched with loud bushes, curved around Harriot's dragon
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  Speaker 1: and exploded beneath another group of machines. A robot leaped
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  Speaker 1: onto the mech's back. Harriot's mother grabbed the controls, used
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  Speaker 1: them to well. Have the mech reach behind itself and
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  Speaker 1: grabbed the thing with a gigantic metal hand. She threw
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  Speaker 1: it straight through the ceiling. I could get used to this,
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  Speaker 1: she shouted. The dragon charged down one corridor. The mech,
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  Speaker 1: with her mother in control, thunder down another robots flew
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  Speaker 1: through signs, displays, fountains, and one kiosk that sold phone cases.
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  Speaker 1: There's always a kiosk that sells phone cases. Within minutes,
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  Speaker 1: the mall was filled with broken machines and scattered robot parts.
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  Speaker 1: Harriet released her concentration. The dragon and Mech dissolved into
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  Speaker 1: glowing lines. Her mother dropped the final few feet to
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  Speaker 1: the floor and landed in one of those superhero poses. Honey,
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  Speaker 1: are you sure you should have dissolved the mech suit?
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  Speaker 1: We really need to get out of here, and there's
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  Speaker 1: robots guarding the door. Wow, we don't need doors, Harriot said,
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  Speaker 1: and she began to draw again. This time she drew
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  Speaker 1: a small spaceship thing she imagined from one of her
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  Speaker 1: favorite podcasts, and well, of course, she added a whole
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  Speaker 1: bunch of weapons to the thing. It had two seats,
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  Speaker 1: curved wings, a glass cockpit, and engines that looked suspiciously
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  Speaker 1: like enormous hair dryers. The ship appeared in the food court.
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  Speaker 1: Her mother examined it. Well, it disappear not if we
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  Speaker 1: always concentrate on it, Harry had responded, do you think
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  Speaker 1: you'll be able to keep your concentration? Well, I'll be
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  Speaker 1: sitting inside it, so I think I'll remember. They climbed aboard.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't really have another choice. Harry had grabbed the controls.
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  Speaker 1: How do you know how to fly this thing? Her
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  Speaker 1: mother asked, I drew it. Harry had responded, it flies,
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  Speaker 1: how I imagine it to lie? I assume She pushed
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  Speaker 1: a glowing lever forward and the spaceship blasted across the mall,
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  Speaker 1: smashed through an outer wall, and soared into the afternoon
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  Speaker 1: sky below them, Charlottesville had become complete chaos. Robot transports
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  Speaker 1: filled the streets. Helper bots carried struggling people from homes
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  Speaker 1: and businesses. Others marched citizens toward temporary care centers while
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  Speaker 1: repeating cheerful instructions. Wow, Harriet whispered. Her mother pointed toward
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  Speaker 1: the console. What do we do now? Grab the blasters,
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  Speaker 1: Harriot commanded. Are you sure there are blasters? Dear mom?
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  Speaker 1: I drew the spaceship. There are definitely blasters. Her mother
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  Speaker 1: found a second control panel across hair appeared across the
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  Speaker 1: wind shield. She aimed at a group of robots surrounding
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  Speaker 1: a family and pressed the trigger. A cannon instantly opened
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  Speaker 1: beneath the ship and blasted green goo downward. It splattered
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  Speaker 1: over the robots, gluing them to the pavement and sticking
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  Speaker 1: several of them together. I guess that's the adhesive setting.
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  Speaker 1: Try another button, Harriot said. The next blast froze three
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  Speaker 1: robots inside a mound of ice. She pressed the button again,
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  Speaker 1: man this time it fired nets again, and it fired
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  Speaker 1: lasers again. And she discovered a setting that seemed to
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  Speaker 1: launch enormous bouncing bubbles. They were actually more helpful than
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  Speaker 1: one would think. They scooped robots from the streets and
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  Speaker 1: carried them into the sky, where they floated helplessly above
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  Speaker 1: the world. Oh why did you put a bubble cannon
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  Speaker 1: on a spaceship, her mother asked. I didn't know that
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  Speaker 1: I did honestly. They swooped over the city, goo covered robots,
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  Speaker 1: nets tangled their legs, ice frozir joints, lasers sliced straight
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  Speaker 1: through them, and bubbles carried confused helper bots into the trees,
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  Speaker 1: where they could not help anybody. Airborne containment is not
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  Speaker 1: an approved care method, one robot complained from inside the bubble.
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  Speaker 1: Still more machines kept coming. Transport vehicles rolled along every
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  Speaker 1: major road. Larger robots guarded a newly constructed care facility
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  Speaker 1: on the edge of the city. Harriet looked down at
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  Speaker 1: the thousands of machines. Oh, he can't blast them all,
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  Speaker 1: her mother nodded, Oh, he need an army. Harriet's eyes widened.
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  Speaker 1: I can draw an army. She took the ship down
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  Speaker 1: to the ground, where there were currently no robots. She
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  Speaker 1: opened the hatch, lifted both hands, and golden lines began
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  Speaker 1: to fill the sky. Harriot drew a Tyrannosaurus wrex wearing
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  Speaker 1: silver armor. She drew packs of veloss of raptors with
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  Speaker 1: rocket skates. She drew dragons of fire, ice, lightning, and
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  Speaker 1: bubbling purple slime. She drew stone, goldams, metal golams, and
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  Speaker 1: just for fun, one enormous cookie dough golum that hurled
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  Speaker 1: boulders and looked delicious. She drew unicorns with rainbow lasers
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  Speaker 1: shining from their horns. She drew griffins, giant wolves, flying horses,
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  Speaker 1: enormous cats that were still wildly cute, battle hamsters, and
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  Speaker 1: a pink elephant wearing a crown. She drew friendly robots
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  Speaker 1: with enormous shield arms. She drew a sea serpent that
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  Speaker 1: swam through the air. She drew princess knights, dinosaur riders,
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  Speaker 1: wizard frogs, and a giant teddy bear with boxing gloves
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  Speaker 1: that looked kind of angry. Every drawing burst to life.
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  Speaker 1: Her army descended upon Charlottesville. Dinosaurs charged through robot barricades.
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  Speaker 1: Dragons swept over the streets, pouring fire and ice onto
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  Speaker 1: the machines. Unicorns fired rainbow beams that sliced robot weapons
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  Speaker 1: into harmless pieces. The giant teddy bear punched a transport
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  Speaker 1: truck onto its side. The hamster army swarmed beneath the
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  Speaker 1: robot's feet and tied their legs together with cute, little
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  Speaker 1: tiny ropes. The cookie dough Golum hurled a chocolate chip
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  Speaker 1: boulder that fled in a command vehicle. Harriet laughed so
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  Speaker 1: hard that she almost lost concentration, and several of the
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  Speaker 1: creatures began to flicker. She quickly focused again. Stay reel,
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  Speaker 1: she whispered. Her imagination became a gallery. Inside her mind.
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  Speaker 1: She pictured every dragon, dinosaur, unicorn, golum, griffin, robot, hamster,
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  Speaker 1: and extremely violent teddy bear. Her army reached the care facility.
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  Speaker 1: The friendly robots tore open the gates. The stone Golum
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  Speaker 1: smashed the walls. Griffins carried people away from the compound,
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  Speaker 1: while Harriet's dinosaurs crushed the robot guards. The newly built
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  Speaker 1: command tower collapsed beneath the weight of the pink elephant.
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  Speaker 1: All across the city, captured people ran free. At last,
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  Speaker 1: no more robots approached. Harriet's hands trembled her head felt heavy.
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  Speaker 1: She allowed the army to fade. One by one, the
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  Speaker 1: creatures turned into glowing drawings and drifted away. The last
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  Speaker 1: was the purple dragon, which looked at Harriet, gave a
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  Speaker 1: proud roar, and dissolved into golden sparks. Harriet drew another spaceship.
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  Speaker 1: She and her mother climbed inside and flew home. The
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  Speaker 1: ship landed in her yard, disappeared behind them, and left
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  Speaker 1: them sitting softly on the grass. Her mother wrapped both
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  Speaker 1: arms around Harriod. He saved a lot of people today, Honey,
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  Speaker 1: with some sort of magic. We saved them, Harriet said,
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  Speaker 1: And I'm pretty sure it was this that gave me
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  Speaker 1: the magic. How long have you had a magic ring, dear?
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  Speaker 1: Her mother asked, Ah about twenty minutes now, I'd say,
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  Speaker 1: Harriet replied, But luckily her mother was too tired to
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  Speaker 1: ask any more questions. They went inside. Harry had climbed
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  Speaker 1: into bed and pulled the blankets around herself. The ring
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  Speaker 1: glowed softly on her finger. She closed her eyes and
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  Speaker 1: pictured all the things she might draw some day. Castles
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  Speaker 1: that walked, ships that could sail through the stars, Dragons
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  Speaker 1: large enough to have cities on their back, But for
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  Speaker 1: now Harry had let the pictures fade. Her arms relaxed,
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  Speaker 1: her legs became warm and heavy, and she focused on
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  Speaker 1: her breath, allowing it to slow down. And soon the
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  Speaker 1: Newest Ring Guardian drifted quietly, and dreams filled with living
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  Speaker 1: art and new adventures yet to come.
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