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Nature Magic, The Forest Fire, and The Magic Carpet Race - A Kid Wizard Super Story! · Dad’s Bedtime Stories

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Speaker 1: Hey, 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: Today it's Saturday, which means it's time for another compilation episode,
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Speaker 1: a super story, if you will. And as you know,
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Speaker 1: we've been kind of going back to the Kid Wizard
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Speaker 1: episodes a world where imagination is magic in a very
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Speaker 1: literal sense, and today we're going to take on episodes
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Speaker 1: five and six. Episode five is about nature, magic and
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Speaker 1: a forest fire, and episode six involves a magic carpet race. Honestly,
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Speaker 1: I barely remember doing these episodes, so it's kind of
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Speaker 1: fun to go back and see what happens. Anyways, I
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Speaker 1: really hope you like them. But now it's that time again.
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Speaker 1: Time to get as comfy as you can in that bed,
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Speaker 1: close your eyes and imagine yourself doing what the Kid
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Speaker 1: Wizard in the story does. You open your eyes and
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Speaker 1: look around. You can see that you're inside the little
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Speaker 1: pocket dimensioned bedroom of your backpack. You get up as usual,
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Speaker 1: get dressed, get ready, have breakfast, and then you head
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Speaker 1: up the little ladder in the center of the room.
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Speaker 1: As you climb up, a zipper unfolds above your head.
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Speaker 1: You climb straight out at the top with a little
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Speaker 1: backpack and find yourself in the middle of a forest.
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I was learning about nature magic before. Out
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Speaker 1: of nowhere, another backpack appears. The top of it opens up,
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Speaker 1: and out climbs your teacher, Martin. Good morning, Martin says,
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Speaker 1: good morning. What do you want to get up to today? Well,
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Speaker 1: maybe we could continue learning about this nature magic thing.
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that would be a great idea, you respond,
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Speaker 1: and then you hear a strange beeping noise. Now, when
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Speaker 1: is it this time, Martin says, pulling out his magic
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Speaker 1: wand and looking at it as the tip of it
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Speaker 1: flashes a bright red color. He flicks the wand and
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Speaker 1: in the air in front of you appears the face
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Speaker 1: of another wizard. Well, hello there, and unfortunately there's a
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Speaker 1: little bit of a wild magic that's appeared in the
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Speaker 1: real world. It's causing quite a well, a forest fire,
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Speaker 1: the wizard explains, a forest fire. Martin says, again, those
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Speaker 1: things are the worst. All right, we'll be right there.
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Speaker 1: Come on, kid, we better get going. Uh, what's happening,
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Speaker 1: you ask, No, it's another forest fire. Those things can
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Speaker 1: get out of control real fast, Martin says, as his
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Speaker 1: magic carpet flies out of his backpack and unfolds itself
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Speaker 1: beside him. He steps on to it as you do
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Speaker 1: the same thing with your magic carpet. Once again, the
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Speaker 1: carpet wraps its little fibers around your feet, and you
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Speaker 1: and Martin take off into the air, soaring high above
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Speaker 1: the forest that surrounds the Magic Academy. As you fly,
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Speaker 1: Martin continues to explain things. Well, you see, forest fires
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Speaker 1: are a problem because they get people worried, and as
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Speaker 1: you know, belief is what fuels magic, and well, worry
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Speaker 1: can be even more powerful because people tend to kind
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Speaker 1: of focus on it too long. Anyway, as soon as
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Speaker 1: a fire starts and it can get out of control quickly,
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Speaker 1: and if it's a wild magic causing it in the first.
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Speaker 2: Place, this could be bad. Kid.
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Speaker 1: You don't like the sounds of that, but you know,
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Speaker 1: with Martin by your side, everything's going to be just fine.
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Speaker 1: The two of you fly back towards the ancient and
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Speaker 1: old tree that leads you into the real world again.
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Speaker 1: You fly directly into the tree into a portal that
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Speaker 1: leads to a strange and colorful tunnel winding left and
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Speaker 1: right and up and down. Before eventually flying out the
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Speaker 1: other side back into the real world. In a large
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Speaker 1: and dense forest. You follow Martin higher and higher and
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Speaker 1: higher into the air, high above the clouds, where no
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Speaker 1: one will see you, and wonder what's up with the
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Speaker 1: magic carpet. You soar high above the world with the
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Speaker 1: sun on your face and against your skin. Martin never
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Speaker 1: explained exactly where it was you were going, but you
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Speaker 1: trust him enough to follow him wherever it is. Before
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Speaker 1: too long, he begins to descend below the clouds. As
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Speaker 1: you follow behind him, you find yourself once again and
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Speaker 1: high above a large forest. Only this one is covered
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Speaker 1: in all sorts of thick smoke. In the distance you
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Speaker 1: can see where it's coming from. A huge area of
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Speaker 1: the forest is completely set on fire. Oh no, that
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Speaker 1: looks really bad. It is, but we've dealt with things
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Speaker 1: like this before. With enough wizards, we should be fine.
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Speaker 2: As you look.
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Speaker 1: Around you you see other wizards flying through the air
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Speaker 1: as well, some of them atop magic carpets like you,
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Speaker 1: while others ride broomsticks, motorcycles, and even flying skateboards. The
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Speaker 1: possibilities for flying things seem pretty much endless, and you
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Speaker 1: can't wait to try out something else. The wizards fly
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Speaker 1: to every edge of the giant forest fire. They pull
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Speaker 1: out their wands, and bit by bit they create an
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Speaker 1: illusion around the area. The air shimmers, and the view
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Speaker 1: of the forest fire is replaced with the view of
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Speaker 1: a forest fire that's being fought with huge water planes
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Speaker 1: and helicopters. As the wizards themselves pass through the new illusion,
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Speaker 1: they just sort of disappear. This is a great cover,
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Speaker 1: you realize.
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Speaker 2: As you pass.
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Speaker 1: Through the outside of the illusion, the view changes once again,
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Speaker 1: and you see all the other wizards once again, flying
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Speaker 1: from place to place, summoning water from nearby lakes or rivers,
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Speaker 1: shooting beams of ice down at the fire, each one
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Speaker 1: just trying to do their has to put part of
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Speaker 1: it out. As you circle around the area beside Martin,
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Speaker 1: he points to something there. It is, he says, the
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Speaker 1: center of it. Sometimes these strange, wild and unregulated magic
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Speaker 1: seem to appear from nowhere. It's both a good and
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Speaker 1: a bad thing. The bad side is the forest fire,
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Speaker 1: of course, But the good side is that if we
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Speaker 1: catch this thing, we can harness its power to create
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Speaker 1: other magical items, and it has a lot of power.
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Speaker 2: We can.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, But first We're going to have to get close
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Speaker 1: to it. Help me out. Martin flies down towards the fire.
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Speaker 1: He lifts his wand up in the air. It glows
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Speaker 1: a bright blue color, and he shoots a blue beam
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Speaker 1: of icy air down towards the ground. As the beam
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Speaker 1: hits the trees that are on fire, the fire goes
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Speaker 1: out almost immediately, and it even leaves a layer of
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Speaker 1: ice behind. You decide to try to help out. The
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Speaker 1: ability to use your ice magic has become much more
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Speaker 1: reflexive over the last little while. The more you do it,
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Speaker 1: the less you have to think about it. You no
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Speaker 1: longer have to go back to that place where you
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Speaker 1: attempted to feel very very cold. Instead, you just have
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Speaker 1: to remember what it feels like to shoot out a
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Speaker 1: beam of ice, and it kind of happens. You lift
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Speaker 1: your wand up in the air, you allow the power
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Speaker 1: of ice and cold to pass through your limbs. Then
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Speaker 1: you focus it into your wand shooting a slightly different
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Speaker 1: looking but very simil beam of ice towards the ground. Together,
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Speaker 1: you and Martin carve out a circle around the wild magic,
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Speaker 1: freezing the area on both sides of it, so the
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Speaker 1: fire completely goes out. When there's enough room. Martin lands
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Speaker 1: on the ground beside the huge ball of floating fire
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Speaker 1: that's shooting little fire balls in every single direction.
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Speaker 2: You do the same.
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Speaker 1: You can feel the heat against your skin. It's really
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Speaker 1: really intense. All right now, I say we try to
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Speaker 1: trap it with ice. It might be the only way
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Speaker 1: to contain the heat. And I'm not sure this is
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Speaker 1: gonna be enough, he says, looking towards his wand he
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Speaker 1: reaches into his pocket and pulls out a tiny little backpack.
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Speaker 1: The backpack immediately grows to full size in his hand,
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Speaker 1: and he sticks his arm down inside it, reaching around
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Speaker 1: for something. It's still strange to see his arm go
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Speaker 1: deeper than the bag should allow. But you're getting a
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Speaker 1: little bit used to it. Ah, there it is, he says,
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Speaker 1: as he pulls out a huge staff with a large
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Speaker 1: crystal on the top. This should do, he says. He
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Speaker 1: grabs the staff in his hands, he spins it around
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Speaker 1: his body like a bow staff, doing figure eights and
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Speaker 1: loop to loops. Then he rises it high up into
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Speaker 1: the air, where it glows a bright blue color. He
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Speaker 1: then slams the butt of the thing into the ground.
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Speaker 1: As soon as it hits A flash of blue energy
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Speaker 1: shoots out into the ground in every direction. The ground
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Speaker 1: itself starts to become covered in ice. The ice and
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Speaker 1: circles the Wild Magic and slowly grows towards it. As
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Speaker 1: it does, the wild Magic starts to get even hotter.
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Speaker 1: Pushing back against the ring of ice, Martin focuses as
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Speaker 1: much as he can, doing his best to believe that
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Speaker 1: the ice will overtake the fire. I could use some helpier, kid,
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Speaker 1: he says, Oh right, you realize. You take your wand
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Speaker 1: you lift it up into the air as well. It
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Speaker 1: glows the same bright blue color, and you slam it
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Speaker 1: down into the ground, trying to copy whatever it is
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Speaker 1: Martin did. Either way, you focus on sending your ice
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Speaker 1: energy through the ground around the Wild Magic and towards
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Speaker 1: the large ball of fire. You try to drown out
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Speaker 1: any other sounds, any other thoughts, and you just imagine
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Speaker 1: the ice spreading through the ground and encompassing the Wild
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Speaker 1: Magic and a large ball of ice. And sure enough
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Speaker 1: it starts to work, but pretty slowly. The ice approaches
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Speaker 1: the large ball of fire, and it starts to make headway,
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Speaker 1: crawling up the bottom and around the sides, but the
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Speaker 1: Wild Magic keeps pushing back, creating such intense heat that
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Speaker 1: the layer of ice breaks and falls to the ground.
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Speaker 1: Other wizards, seeing what's going on, fly to your side.
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Speaker 1: They line up on every side of the wild magic,
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Speaker 1: and each one lends their paths to it. With enough wizards,
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Speaker 1: the work becomes easy. The ice easily shoots back through
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Speaker 1: the ground, up and around the wild magic, creating a
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Speaker 1: thick ball of ice. Then the ice starts to glow.
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Speaker 1: It shrinks, it shrinks and shrinks, and then it suddenly
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Speaker 1: solidifies into something that looks like glass, with a large
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Speaker 1: fireball in the center. You release your attempts to freeze
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Speaker 1: the thing, and the other wizards do the same, everyone
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Speaker 1: feeling pretty tired. As you look around, you see some
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Speaker 1: of the other wizards still putting out other parts of
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Speaker 1: the forest fire, but generally speaking, things are looking pretty good.
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Speaker 1: Some wizards run and grab the large ball of fire
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Speaker 1: that's now contained in some sort of magical casing, and
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Speaker 1: they fly off with it, presumably back to the magic Academy.
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Speaker 1: You look around at the forest devastated by fire, large
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Speaker 1: black trees.
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Speaker 2: Smoke going into the air.
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Speaker 1: This is terrible, you say, anah, This well, yeah, but
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Speaker 1: with some magic it won't be a problem. If we
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Speaker 1: just left it alone, all the seeds would grow back
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Speaker 1: into trees, and in almost no time at all we'd
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Speaker 1: have a new forest. But we can make it happen faster. First, though,
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Speaker 1: we're gonna need some nutrients. Martin takes his staff and
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Speaker 1: presses it right against his throat where his vocal cords are,
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Speaker 1: and then he starts to speak, and his speech is
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Speaker 1: amplified up into the air for everyone to hear. Guys,
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Speaker 1: we're gonna need some water here, and this plaze is
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Speaker 1: bone dry, he announces. The wizards, hearing what he's saying,
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Speaker 1: begin to fly higher up into the air. They zoom
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Speaker 1: off in each different direction, and then each one returns
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Speaker 1: with a large well, a large cloud. The clouds begin
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Speaker 1: to form together into a huge gray rain cloud, and
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Speaker 1: before long the rain starts to hit the ground. And
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Speaker 1: then it gets faster and faster and faster, until soon
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Speaker 1: enough it's raining so quickly that you become completely drenched
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Speaker 1: in water. The ground itself, not even having time to
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Speaker 1: absorb it, starts to puddle with huge pools of the stuff.
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Speaker 1: All right, now, step two, Martin says, as the rain
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Speaker 1: clouds dissipate above them, and the sun comes back out.
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Speaker 1: He reaches his staff up in the air, and instead
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Speaker 1: of glowing a bright blue color, this time it glows
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Speaker 1: a bright green color. Once again, he slams the staff
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Speaker 1: down into the ground, and lines of green energy travel
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Speaker 1: through the ground into little seeds that are spread all
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Speaker 1: around him. The seeds start.
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Speaker 2: To glow and glow.
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Speaker 1: And then they begin to sprout, first into tiny little seedlings,
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Speaker 1: and then into little trees, and then into bigger trees,
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Speaker 1: and then they just keep growing and growing and growing
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Speaker 1: until they tower around you once more, looking like they're
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Speaker 1: well thirty or forty years old already. How do you
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Speaker 1: do that, well, Martin says, as I said, I was
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Speaker 1: going to teach you this anyways.
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Speaker 2: Is it some kind of nature magic?
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Speaker 1: You ask, well, kind of, But it's more nature magic
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Speaker 1: mixed with time magic.
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Speaker 2: As I said before, what I'm.
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Speaker 1: Doing is kind of tricking the seeds into existing faster,
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Speaker 1: if that makes any sense. Man.
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Speaker 2: Don't get that mistaken.
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Speaker 1: With moving faster, they're completely different things, although they do
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Speaker 1: go together sort of. You see, when you make something
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Speaker 1: exist faster, every single atom in it starts to spin faster,
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Speaker 1: to go go through time at a faster rate, and
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Speaker 1: as it does, it absorbs the nutrients around it, and
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Speaker 1: it grows into large trees. You can use your nature
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Speaker 1: magic at the same time to direct how they grow
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Speaker 1: or how they twist. I've already taught you that part. Okay,
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Speaker 1: so all I have to do is make things exist faster,
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Speaker 1: I think.
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Speaker 2: Guess I'll give it a try.
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Speaker 1: You say, all right, and I'll work on other parts
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Speaker 1: of the forest. As Martin moves his way around the
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Speaker 1: forest and coaxes all of the little seeds to grow
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Speaker 1: into large trees once again, you kneel down in front
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Speaker 1: of one little pine cone. You look at the pine cone,
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Speaker 1: and you decide that this might be the right place
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Speaker 1: to start. You close your eyes and begin to focus
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Speaker 1: on your breath, steadily in and out. With each breath,
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Speaker 1: you allow your shoulders to relax more and more. You
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Speaker 1: allow your face to soften in a nice half smile,
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Speaker 1: and you hold your wand gently in your hand. You
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Speaker 1: focus your attention on the pine cone. You allow the
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Speaker 1: pine cone to become one with well your thoughts, and
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Speaker 1: as you do, you start to see the pine cone
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Speaker 1: inside your head. Using your mind, you kind of zoom
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Speaker 1: in on the pine cone, seeing it closer and closer
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Speaker 1: and closer, until you're so zoomed in that you can
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Speaker 1: see it on an atomic level, little atoms just vibrating together.
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Speaker 1: You imagine the atoms to start moving faster, existing faster,
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Speaker 1: as Martin suggested, and slowly, but surely they begin to
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Speaker 1: speed up faster and faster and faster. The pine cone
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Speaker 1: quickly deteriorates in front of you, and then one part
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Speaker 1: of it sprouts little roots that reach into the ground. Next,
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Speaker 1: a tiny little stem pops up. Encouraged by the progress,
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Speaker 1: you imagine each part of the thing moving even faster,
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Speaker 1: absorbing all of the water and nutrients from the ground
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Speaker 1: that it needs and from the sun that's shining brightly
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Speaker 1: above you. And sure enough, it continues to grow at
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Speaker 1: an even fast faster pace, growing into a little seedling,
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Speaker 1: and then a small tree, reaching up towards the sky
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Speaker 1: to become a medium sized tree, and then going further
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Speaker 1: and further and further, reaching higher and higher towards the sky.
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Speaker 1: As the trunk expands quickly in the ground in front
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Speaker 1: of you, you continue to focus on the tree as
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Speaker 1: it grows faster and faster and faster. When you open
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Speaker 1: your eyes. All you can see is a giant tree trunk,
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Speaker 1: a trunk much wider and thicker than you, and much
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Speaker 1: wider and thicker than any of the other trees. Whow kid,
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Speaker 1: take it easy there, That thing's like two hundred years
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Speaker 1: old already, oh, you say, as you look up at
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Speaker 1: the tree of oops. The tree is huge, much much
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Speaker 1: much bigger than any of the other trees in the
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Speaker 1: surrounding area. You summon your magic carpet and step aboard.
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Speaker 1: You fly up towards the top of the tree, and
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Speaker 1: you see that it sticks up out of the forest
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Speaker 1: a lot more than any of the other trees. You
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Speaker 1: might have gotten a little carried away, but the view
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Speaker 1: from up here is amazing. And that's when you get
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Speaker 1: another idea, I wonder.
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Speaker 2: You say.
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Speaker 1: You reach your consciousness out towards the tree once more,
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Speaker 1: allowing your energy to pass through the wand and into
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Speaker 1: the tree. This time, you use the nature magic you
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Speaker 1: learned to give the tree permission to release its hardness,
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Speaker 1: allowing it to become malleable. And then, using your mind,
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Speaker 1: you coax the tree into moving into winding its branches
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Speaker 1: together into a little platform high above the world, complete
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Speaker 1: with a little railing on the outside and living branches
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Speaker 1: growing out of each corner. When you release your mind,
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Speaker 1: you see a beautiful platform sitting in front of you,
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Speaker 1: completely woven out of the branches from the top of
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Speaker 1: the tree. You land on the platform and you look
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Speaker 1: out over the forest. Martin flies up and lands beside you.
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Speaker 2: Wow. Kid, good idea and great view.
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Speaker 1: You and Martin watch as the wizards around you you
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Speaker 1: begin to disappear, flying away from the now rebuilt forest.
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Speaker 1: As they go, they take their illusion with them, revealing
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Speaker 1: and absolutely breath taking. Sunset and as the sun sets,
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Speaker 1: you're starting to get sleepy too well. It may be
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Speaker 1: time to take a little rest. You say, that took
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Speaker 1: a lot out of me. You reach into your pocket
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Speaker 1: and pull out your tiny little backpack. You put your
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Speaker 1: hand on either side of it and expand the backpack
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Speaker 1: in much the same way one would zoom in using
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Speaker 1: a tablet or touchscreen. You open up the backpack, place
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Speaker 1: it on the ground, and you step inside, finding the
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Speaker 1: sturdy ladder and climbing back down towards your little pocket
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Speaker 1: to the backpack closes above you and completely disappears from existence.
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Speaker 1: As far as anyone else can tell, you immediately jump
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Speaker 1: in the comfy bed, your mind still centered from the
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Speaker 1: focus you put on growing the tree. You lay your
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Speaker 1: head down on the soft pillow, and you go back
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Speaker 1: to your breath once again, each breath relaxing your muscles,
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Speaker 1: allowing you to sink down deeper and deeper into the mattress,
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Speaker 1: and allowing your mind to drift off to a wonderful
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Speaker 1: and relaxing sleep. Imagine yourself waking up inside your pocket dimension.
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Speaker 1: You've been practicing all of your different magic skills for.
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Speaker 2: Days and days and days.
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Speaker 1: You've now mastered fire, ice, levitation, and even a fair
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Speaker 1: bit of nature magic. Today, you feel like taking a
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Speaker 1: bit of a break from practice, maybe exploring the area
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Speaker 1: around the Magic Academy. You look down on the ground
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Speaker 1: and you see your magic carpet sitting there, the very
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Speaker 1: magic carpet that picked you up for the first time
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Speaker 1: and delivered you to the Magic Academy. You climb aboard
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Speaker 1: the carpet and together you float up out of your
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Speaker 1: little pocket dimension. The zipper of the backpack opens up
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Speaker 1: above you, and you rise up out of it into
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Speaker 1: the real world, or at least the Magic Academy part
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Speaker 1: of the real world. You find that you're already outside
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Speaker 1: the castle. You grab your back, smush it together to
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Speaker 1: make it shrink down small enough to fit in your pocket,
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Speaker 1: and you take off on your magic carpet, flying high
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Speaker 1: up into the sky. You spend some time floating around
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Speaker 1: the castle, through the enchanted forest and just looking at
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Speaker 1: all of the different sites there are to see. And
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Speaker 1: that's when you see a group of other wizards approaching,
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Speaker 1: and they're led by none other than Tarannas Rexington, your
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Speaker 1: least favorite wizard. Well, if it isn't the kid from
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Speaker 1: the non wizarding world, what's that you're riding around on
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Speaker 1: one of the carpets that I give it to you
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Speaker 1: by the Agadamy. Look, everyone, he's got a basic carpet.
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Speaker 1: All of the other wizards start to point and laugh
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Speaker 1: at you. You never really thought of your magic carpet
29:07
Speaker 1: as basic before, and you like this magic carpet. This
29:15
Speaker 1: magic carpet's way better than yours, You respond, even though
29:20
Speaker 1: you know it's probably not true. Tyrannus Rexington and most
29:26
Speaker 1: of his friends are floating around on either things that
29:30
Speaker 1: look like snowboards or floating skateboards, very very stylish and
29:38
Speaker 1: very expensive looking. You've learned over your time at the
29:42
Speaker 1: Magic Academy that different wizards seem to have different preferences
29:48
Speaker 1: for different flying objects. A magic carpet is given to
29:53
Speaker 1: each wizard when they start at the Magic Academy, but
29:57
Speaker 1: you assume from there you can either buy or make
30:01
Speaker 1: another one. You're honestly not really sure. Well, if you
30:08
Speaker 1: think that your cop it is better than mine, Tyrannus responds,
30:15
Speaker 1: then I challenge you to a race. His friends immediately
30:22
Speaker 1: start to chatter with one another, tapping each other on
30:25
Speaker 1: the shoulders and talking excitedly about what this race may
30:31
Speaker 1: look like. As quickly as you can, you think through
30:35
Speaker 1: your different options to race or not to race, But
30:40
Speaker 1: when you see all of the others staring at you,
30:44
Speaker 1: and you look down at your carpet, you know there's
30:48
Speaker 1: no other choice. I'll race you, you respond, And where
30:54
Speaker 1: do you want to do this anyways? Oh well, I'm
30:59
Speaker 1: not sure. Perhaps just follow me and we'll find somewhere
31:06
Speaker 1: to race somewhere I've totally never raced before or practiced
31:13
Speaker 1: for this exact moment, Tyrannus says. There's a bit of
31:18
Speaker 1: a strange response, but you decide to just kind of
31:22
Speaker 1: shake it off. And see where this takes you. Tyrannus
31:27
Speaker 1: and his friends fly up into the sky. You, standing
31:31
Speaker 1: aboard your magic carpet, fly after him. They lead you
31:37
Speaker 1: across the enchanted forest and all the way over to
31:41
Speaker 1: a large volcano that's spewing ash and smoke at all times.
31:47
Speaker 1: You fly up to the very top of the volcano,
31:52
Speaker 1: and there you find two starting flags and a large
31:57
Speaker 1: sign that says Race of Doom. You immediately start to
32:03
Speaker 1: get a little wary about this. Something seems off here.
32:10
Speaker 1: As Tyrannus lands beside the starting posts to the Race
32:15
Speaker 1: of Doom, he explains the rules. All right, well, we
32:23
Speaker 1: will both leave at the same time. The race is
32:28
Speaker 1: marked with different magical checkpoints to keep you on track.
32:34
Speaker 1: They light up a bright color until you pass through
32:38
Speaker 1: them man wnchtime, they just sort of disappear. The race
32:46
Speaker 1: should lead you down into the volcano through a series
32:52
Speaker 1: of tunnels, pass a whole bunch of very spiky and
32:59
Speaker 1: very dangers obstacles, and then to right over there where
33:05
Speaker 1: the finish line is. Rexington points down to the bottom
33:11
Speaker 1: of the volcano where you see another set of gates.
33:16
Speaker 1: Finish gates. Uh okay, I think I've got it. Have
33:23
Speaker 1: you raised this race before, though, you ask, oh me,
33:29
Speaker 1: well a few times, but not in a long time.
33:33
Speaker 1: I mean, I should be pretty rusty. I think it's
33:38
Speaker 1: rather safe. You know that he's lying to you, but
33:44
Speaker 1: you also know that at this point there's nothing you
33:48
Speaker 1: can really do about it. Why would you have agreed
33:51
Speaker 1: to this in the first place. You shouldn't let peer
33:54
Speaker 1: pressure push you into doing really dumb, dangerous things like
34:00
Speaker 1: flying through a mountain of a lava on a magic carpet.
34:04
Speaker 1: But before you can finish that thought, you hear one
34:08
Speaker 1: of the other students announcing the start to the race.
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Speaker 1: Ready three two one and go Immediately, Tarannus Rexington zooms
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Speaker 1: off straight down the center of the volcano. You snap
34:26
Speaker 1: back into focus and follow behind him as quickly as
34:30
Speaker 1: you can, going through the starting gate and then dropping
34:34
Speaker 1: down rapidly straight towards the lava. You pass through several
34:39
Speaker 1: glowing gates on the way down. Each one makes a
34:43
Speaker 1: little digging sound as you pass through, almost like you're
34:47
Speaker 1: in some kind of video game. Just before the gates
34:52
Speaker 1: hit the huge pool of lava at the bottom of
34:55
Speaker 1: the volcano, they lead you towards the side through a
35:00
Speaker 1: little tunnel that shoots off to the left. You do
35:05
Speaker 1: your best to will the magic carpet to go faster
35:08
Speaker 1: and faster, and it starts to obey. You make your
35:13
Speaker 1: way through the tunnel at rapid speed, dodging left and
35:18
Speaker 1: right and up and down. As you pass through another
35:22
Speaker 1: series of gates, the tunnel leads you into another cavern
35:26
Speaker 1: that's full of lava, and not just any lava, but
35:31
Speaker 1: lava with little rocks that shoot up out of the ground.
35:36
Speaker 1: You stop for a second as you watch Tyrannus Rexington
35:40
Speaker 1: head straight through the room, dodging around the flaming balls
35:45
Speaker 1: of rock and passing through each one of the gates
35:50
Speaker 1: in turn. You take a deep breath once again, and
35:54
Speaker 1: then you will the magic carpet forward, blasting through the cavern,
36:00
Speaker 1: dodging left and right as huge balls of rocky fire
36:05
Speaker 1: shoot up out of the ground. One of them singes
36:08
Speaker 1: the carpet just a little as you pass through, but
36:12
Speaker 1: either way, you're quick enough to be able to navigate
36:16
Speaker 1: the room with relative ease. As soon as you stop
36:20
Speaker 1: worrying about the flaming balls of rock, you once again
36:25
Speaker 1: shoot through another cavern, Only this one seems to have
36:30
Speaker 1: all sorts of obstacles. This particular tunnel is covered in
36:35
Speaker 1: half walls walls that come down from the sea, laying
36:39
Speaker 1: or up from the ground or off from the side.
36:42
Speaker 1: You quickly have to duck down below them, jump up
36:45
Speaker 1: over top of them, or swing from side to side.
36:50
Speaker 1: Once again, you make your way through the tunnel like
36:54
Speaker 1: a pro, dodging each obstacle with relative ease, and you
37:00
Speaker 1: even catch up to Tyrannus Rexington again. The two of
37:05
Speaker 1: you head into the next area neck and neck, but
37:10
Speaker 1: this area is even scarier than the first. There's huge
37:14
Speaker 1: metal spikes sticking out of the walls and the ceiling
37:18
Speaker 1: and the ground. In order to hit all of the gates,
37:22
Speaker 1: you have to quickly wind around them. It's all pretty
37:27
Speaker 1: easy until you realize that the spikes move and shift.
37:32
Speaker 1: Some of the spikes start disappearing back into the walls,
37:36
Speaker 1: an other ones suddenly shoot out, causing you to suddenly
37:40
Speaker 1: lurch to the left to avoid one of them, or
37:43
Speaker 1: off to the right. Still neck and neck with Tyrannus,
37:48
Speaker 1: you make your way through the room of spikes back
37:52
Speaker 1: through another tunnel, and you find yourself on the final
37:56
Speaker 1: stretch towards the finish line. Only something seems off about it.
38:03
Speaker 1: The ground below you starts to rumble and grumble, and
38:08
Speaker 1: then spikes start shooting out.
38:10
Speaker 2: Of it as well.
38:12
Speaker 1: You dodge the spikes from left to right as you
38:14
Speaker 1: head towards the finish line. You will yourself just a
38:19
Speaker 1: little bit ahead of Tyrannus, and you're about to pass
38:24
Speaker 1: through the finish line when a spike unexpectedly shoots up
38:29
Speaker 1: beneath you. This time, you're not quite quick enough to move.
38:35
Speaker 1: The spike doesn't hit you, but it does catch your
38:39
Speaker 1: magic carpet. You watch as the carpet rips in half
38:44
Speaker 1: below you. At the last minute, Tyrannus pulls ahead, flies
38:50
Speaker 1: through the finish line of the obstacle course, and you
38:55
Speaker 1: fall to the ground just short of it, with two
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Speaker 1: pieces of a magic carpet attached to your feet. Your
39:05
Speaker 1: magic carpet has been completely destroyed.
39:11
Speaker 2: All of the other.
39:12
Speaker 1: Students begin to laugh, and together with their friend Tyrannus,
39:17
Speaker 1: they fly away, telling you to have fun getting home.
39:23
Speaker 1: Oh no, this isn't going to be easy. You find
39:28
Speaker 1: that even though your magic carpet's ripped in half, you
39:32
Speaker 1: can still kind of get it to fly. It's just
39:36
Speaker 1: a lot less stable than you'd expect.
39:40
Speaker 2: You do your.
39:41
Speaker 1: Best to carefully float up over the trees and head
39:45
Speaker 1: slowly back towards the castle. It doesn't take you as
39:49
Speaker 1: long as you thought it would, but it certainly isn't easy.
39:55
Speaker 1: You land outside the castle doors and you head into
39:59
Speaker 1: the train room where Martin's normally hanging out. As soon
40:04
Speaker 1: as you enter, you see him, and he sees you.
40:08
Speaker 1: What happened to you? He says, You tell him the
40:13
Speaker 1: story about how you got into this whole situation in
40:17
Speaker 1: the first place, and how you ripped your magic carpet. Now, well,
40:23
Speaker 1: I guess you're gonna have to make a new one.
40:25
Speaker 1: Then come on over here and I'll show you how
40:31
Speaker 1: make a new one. You think I can make a
40:34
Speaker 1: magic carpet, you ask, well, the magic carpet or some
40:41
Speaker 1: sort of other flying device. And wizards have all sorts
40:44
Speaker 1: of preferences. Some of them like to use the traditional broom,
40:50
Speaker 1: Others prefer a more modern feel, using something more akin
40:54
Speaker 1: to a snowboard or a skateboard. Honestly, it's really up
40:59
Speaker 1: to you. If you want to fly around on a
41:01
Speaker 1: magic table, we can make that happen. Well, what do
41:07
Speaker 1: you recommend?
41:08
Speaker 2: You ask?
41:09
Speaker 1: Martin for you, well, maybe you should try a skateboard.
41:17
Speaker 1: And I know it's not really your traditional flying device,
41:21
Speaker 1: but the cool thing about them is they just kind
41:24
Speaker 1: of blend in in the real world too. When people
41:28
Speaker 1: see you flying around on a magic carpet and kind
41:32
Speaker 1: of gets their backs up. But with a skateboard, you
41:36
Speaker 1: can just switch over to rolling around on the ground magically,
41:40
Speaker 1: and nobody asks a question. Huh you think imagining yourself
41:47
Speaker 1: flying through the air on the skateboard and then landing
41:51
Speaker 1: on the ground and winding through people, that does sound
41:56
Speaker 1: like the perfect idea. Well, how do I make one?
42:00
Speaker 1: You ask, Well, first you need to make the skateboard itself,
42:06
Speaker 1: and I've already taught you nature magic. You should just
42:10
Speaker 1: be able to bend a tree into the right shape. Here,
42:15
Speaker 1: use this, Martin says, picking up an empty pot with
42:20
Speaker 1: some dirt in it and placing it in front of you. No, man, this,
42:25
Speaker 1: Martin says, tossing you a seed. You grab the seed
42:30
Speaker 1: and put it down inside the potted plant. You pull
42:34
Speaker 1: your magic wand out of your pocket, and you focus
42:38
Speaker 1: all of your energy towards the seed, becoming one with
42:43
Speaker 1: the seed, imagining the seed beginning to grow, imagining it
42:49
Speaker 1: existing faster than everything else. Soon enough, the seed begins
42:55
Speaker 1: to glow, and then it grows and grows and grows
43:00
Speaker 1: at an absolutely rapid pace into a much larger tree.
43:07
Speaker 1: And as it grows, you give the tree permission to
43:11
Speaker 1: become more malleable, and you start to form it into
43:16
Speaker 1: the shape of a skateboard. The tree twists and bends,
43:21
Speaker 1: winding its branches together and then smoothing them into the
43:27
Speaker 1: perfect shape. Next, you focus on the wheels themselves, growing
43:33
Speaker 1: out of the bottom of the board and forming into
43:36
Speaker 1: perfect wheels with little ball bearings. The end result is
43:43
Speaker 1: an absolutely beautiful skateboard. You reach out, grab the board
43:49
Speaker 1: and kind of snap it off the branch.
43:53
Speaker 2: Perfect.
43:54
Speaker 1: Now, when you're gonna need to make that thing run
43:58
Speaker 1: is a little bit wild magic. You see, Magical objects
44:05
Speaker 1: can't just exist on their own. You have to give
44:08
Speaker 1: them something to power them. Man, the most common way
44:12
Speaker 1: to do that is using wild magic. We've captured now,
44:17
Speaker 1: since you and I captured a whole forest fire the
44:21
Speaker 1: other day, Well, he should be good. Martin reaches his
44:26
Speaker 1: hand down into his backpack much further than it should
44:30
Speaker 1: be able to go. When he pulls it out. He
44:35
Speaker 1: pulls out a giant ball of ice with a very
44:40
Speaker 1: bright flame in the center of it, the forest fire
44:44
Speaker 1: that the two of you captured the other day. Now,
44:49
Speaker 1: what you're gonna want to do is connect the two
44:53
Speaker 1: objects in your mind, move some of the power into
44:57
Speaker 1: the skateboard, and then well, just kind of will it
45:03
Speaker 1: to do what you wanted to do. As long as
45:06
Speaker 1: you believe it, it should work most of the time.
45:11
Speaker 2: Oh okay. He hands you the giant.
45:15
Speaker 1: Ball of ice that's surrounding a large ball of wild
45:21
Speaker 1: magic in the form of fire. You hold the ball
45:25
Speaker 1: in one hand, and you hold the skateboard in the other.
45:30
Speaker 1: You close your eyes and you allow your consciousness to
45:34
Speaker 1: expand into both of them, becoming one with the skateboard
45:40
Speaker 1: and one with the wild magic. As you focus, you
45:47
Speaker 1: imagine the wild magic leaving the ball of ice and
45:52
Speaker 1: being absorbed by the skateboard itself, bringing life to it.
45:58
Speaker 2: Life that.
46:00
Speaker 1: Allows the skateboard to fly through the air with ease
46:05
Speaker 1: or rolled across the ground like it's powered by electricity
46:11
Speaker 1: or something. And as you focus, you feel a little
46:16
Speaker 1: tingling as the magic works its way out of the
46:21
Speaker 1: ball of ice through your arm, through your body and
46:26
Speaker 1: into the other arm that's holding the skateboard. The skateboard
46:32
Speaker 1: begins to glow, and you continue to focus. You focus
46:37
Speaker 1: on what it'll feel like to ride it, exactly what
46:41
Speaker 1: it'll be able to do, moving through the air with ease,
46:44
Speaker 1: and the ground and well attaching itself to your feet.
46:50
Speaker 1: And soon the skateboard begins to glow very very brightly,
46:58
Speaker 1: and the trickle of magic starts to slow down, to
47:01
Speaker 1: the point where you don't feel like you can force
47:05
Speaker 1: any more magic into the thing. With that, you open
47:10
Speaker 1: your eyes and look up at Martin. Did it work?
47:15
Speaker 1: You ask, Well, there's only one way to find out,
47:19
Speaker 1: he says, coming over and grabbing the large ball of
47:23
Speaker 1: ice and placing it back inside his backpack. You place
47:28
Speaker 1: the skateboard on the ground and you carefully step aboard it. Immediately,
47:35
Speaker 1: it feels like it snaps to your feet, attaches itself
47:40
Speaker 1: with some sort of invisible pull. Even stranger, you now
47:45
Speaker 1: feel like you can command the skateboard in much the
47:49
Speaker 1: same way you command your limbs to move. You imagine
47:53
Speaker 1: it moving forward, and it begins to slide around the room,
47:59
Speaker 1: rolling across the floor with ease. You weave your way
48:04
Speaker 1: inside and outside of all the huge pillars that are
48:08
Speaker 1: holding up the roof. Man, do you really start to
48:11
Speaker 1: get the hang of it quickly? Next, you decide you
48:15
Speaker 1: better find out if this thing can actually fly. With
48:19
Speaker 1: a thought, it hops up off the ground and into
48:23
Speaker 1: the air, and in almost the same way, you can
48:27
Speaker 1: weave up and down side to side, and even do
48:32
Speaker 1: some loop to loops as if there's invisible skateboard ramps
48:37
Speaker 1: in the air itself. Well, kid, I'd say it works
48:43
Speaker 1: and have fun. You spend most of the rest of
48:47
Speaker 1: the day flying around on your new magic skateboard. You
48:52
Speaker 1: find that when you have a skateboard that can easily
48:55
Speaker 1: transition between the ground and the air, everything becomes a
49:00
Speaker 1: skateboard park. You fly up over the castle, landing and
49:07
Speaker 1: rolling down the side of the roof, only to jump
49:11
Speaker 1: back off and soar through the air until you land
49:15
Speaker 1: on the side of a tree and roll down it.
49:18
Speaker 1: It opens up a whole new world of possibilities, and
49:24
Speaker 1: you play around with every single one of those possibilities
49:29
Speaker 1: until you get rather tired. Luckily, for you, in a
49:34
Speaker 1: world like this, home is wherever you are. You reach
49:39
Speaker 1: into your pocket and pull out a tiny little backpack
49:43
Speaker 1: You put your hand on either side of it, and,
49:47
Speaker 1: just like you'd zoom in on a tablet or touch screen,
49:52
Speaker 1: you pull your arms apart, causing the backpack to expand
49:57
Speaker 1: into a rather large back You find it's easier to
50:02
Speaker 1: get in and out when it's rather large. You one
50:06
Speaker 1: zip the top of the backpack and, still aboard your skateboard,
50:11
Speaker 1: you float up into the air and lower yourself gently
50:15
Speaker 1: down into the backpack, entering into the little pocket dimension
50:20
Speaker 1: that you now call home. The backpack zips up above
50:25
Speaker 1: you and presumably disappears from existence once again. You land
50:31
Speaker 1: on the floor of your bedroom and you step off
50:36
Speaker 1: of the skateboard. You pick it up and place it
50:40
Speaker 1: against the wall. Before heading over to the bed. You
50:44
Speaker 1: climb underneath the covers. You pull them up to your chin,
50:50
Speaker 1: and you allow your head to rest on the very
50:53
Speaker 1: comfy pillow. A pillows so comfy you suspect it me
51:00
Speaker 1: be magical. You focus on your breath, and with each
51:07
Speaker 1: breath you get sleepier and sleepier. All of the muscles
51:15
Speaker 1: in your body begin to relax, allowing you to sink
51:20
Speaker 1: down deeper and deeper into the mattress, and before long,
51:27
Speaker 1: you're so comfy and so tired that nothing seems better
51:33
Speaker 1: than just allowing yourself to drift off to a world
51:38
Speaker 1: of dreams and new adventures to come. Good Night everyone,
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Speaker 1: m U