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the dow binder

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just an ordinary house with a bright yellow

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door in fact the

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door was the only thing particularly special

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about the one storey building

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simple flowers lines the sills

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of a few small windows there

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which passers by might occasionally see

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an orange tabby cat lounging leisurely

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the always as sixteen year old girl

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always clad in overall flannels

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and sucks covered in sharpie drawn stars

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it was just like most of the houses that she rode

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by on her way home from school

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perfectly normal

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he would never thought anything of it

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would never have even noticed it if her

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we'll hadn't caught a strange crack in

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the sidewalk just out front one day

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spending her toppling offer a lot

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green bike

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nice the end and face flushed

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she went to write her cell bike

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the only to find it already standing

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on it's own that's

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strange he said out loud

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to no one in particular he

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walked around and examined the bike making

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slow circles the kids

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and wasn't even in the down position the

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bike just have heard their inexplicably

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after one rotation and no explanation

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she felt her only course of action was to

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walk around in a circle again

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which is precisely what she was doing when

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she heard the voice

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so would you like to stare at your bike all

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day or would you care to come inside

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our world around looking right and

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last but saw no one

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that

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she said me

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of course replied the orange

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tabby sitting at her feet

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i jumped at the sight of the cat

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who she could have sworn was not they're just

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moments ago i know

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it takes a bit to get used to but

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you will the bike you

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can leave it on the porch for now the

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orange tabby sauntered towards the bright

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yellow door not

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knowing what else to do alice

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grabbed the handlebars of her bike and

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followed suit

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her curiosity was sparked by the talking

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cat and she had to know if it was

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all real or if she was actually

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dreaming

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just the fact that you're considering i might

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be real and not writing me off as a

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dream right away has you further

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along than most to come to the house for the

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first time the cat remarks

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as if it had been listening to her thoughts i

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assure you i'm real as

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rain my name is

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octavia

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hi arcadia i'm

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finally we know the

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cat interjected confidently

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the his eyebrows raised well

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it's why we stopped your bike today we

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were hoping you would come inside

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our his eyebrows raised even higher

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i am a very clever cat

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i used to bring good fortune to my companion

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you know in my original story

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i was so tricky that i a states

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that old tail but and they found

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me and brought me here

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what i'm trying to song is that were all

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known for always finding exactly

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what it is were looking for

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original story that

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he was we

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where was here

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however just about to ask when they reached

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the yellow door which seem to open

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on it's own in front of them

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octavia appeared over her shoulder at alice

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and alice could have sworn the cat grinned

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welcome to ever after

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alice home of the spell

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binders

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stretching out in front of alice more she

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might have expected a living room or of regular

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old staircase or some other normal house

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things

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there was a large bustling

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well

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library was the only way that alice

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knew how to describe it how

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shelves with all sorts of assorted

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objects line the walls towering

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above her endlessly people

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wield around on ladders zooming

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across the shelves and adding strange

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objects to the masses expand the

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center of the grand room there were

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a long dark wooden tables

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strewn with books and papers being

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poured over by lots of people there

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were hundreds of them at least and they

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were everywhere

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some her age some younger and

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older some speaking in different

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languages

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warren that one of them was one

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of her old classmates a suspicion

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that was confirmed when they gave her a wink

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from behind one of the long tables and

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then returned to their reading

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what this place

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alice asked octavia

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however after read any

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fairytales before

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yeah court

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well alice

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something most readers don't know is

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that fairy tales create incredible

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amazing powerful artifacts

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that sometimes find their way into the world

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tv i hopped out gracefully

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on one of the more vacant tables near it's whole

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shelf they'd me for example

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you ran a story one

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alice tilted her head inquisitive li urging

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the cat to continue

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hi with a cunning see line who wore

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glorious boots

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i could make magic happen for my boon

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companion i started radiating

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with the power of smarts and creativity

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and i used it to seek out a new story

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the style binders they brought you here

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that's right they also now my

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boots which became pretty powerful artifacts

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as well if i do say so myself

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i can't really complain to be honest

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this is a far more interesting place to spend

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my time

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though is it bad

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you are magic that why

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they caught you okay the a

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wandered over to the nearest shells and hopped

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on our gasps

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when she realized the cat was now perched

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next to a shining a glass slipper

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the sparkled and shown bright

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with some kind of powerful energy

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how it could feel it radiating off the very

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familiar shoe no

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it's not bad said the cat

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responding to a question alice nearly forgot

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she had asked given the distraction of that

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glittering su

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though binders want the magic to be in

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the world the remind people

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of their wonder and curiosity and

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strengthen so on and so forth

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sometimes it does fall into the hands

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of those who don't know how to use it

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people that get a tad carried away

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cinderella slipper for example

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the gas

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again octavia seem to release a

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feline grin

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pretty cool home

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this slipper contains the magic

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of big dreams as their

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previous were had many big dreams

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of her own now some

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young kid got their hands on it when they were traveling

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they were taking a tour of a seagull palace

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in europe and found at lying on the stairs

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like a story alice explained

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the pozo while

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most folks just saw shoe

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the side how you see it now

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long story short he used

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to dream up an endless supply of candy

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we couldn't really have that kind of plot twist

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out in the world

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plot twist alice asked

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oh right we call strange

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happenings caused by these magical artifacts

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plot twists honey who

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we retrieve the shoe and now it lives

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here in ever after though

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binders take the artifacts but i've also

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learned how to safely channel their energy

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back into the world

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hacking positive spells back when

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they're needed

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how

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alec looked around and all

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near her she said cinderellas glass

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slipper a glimmering rose from

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bow and the beast and a strand

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of straw half of which was transformed

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into pure gold you

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haven't even heard the coolest part that

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out caveat watching alice carefully

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as she took in the shelves i

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haven't alice replied we

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want you to join us me

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a spiral by now

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welcome to the team

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so alice went on to begin

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her training each day after school

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the money man he's been

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reading stories from different cultures and

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learning about the tricks of the trade

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that's little detail amazed her

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like discovering that there were libraries

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and bookshelf all across the world

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with books that were actually portals

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you could open them and drop in the powerful

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storybook item and know that it

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made it

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safely back to ever after

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the pavia with by her

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side during her entire training

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regimen they became partners

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and perhaps more importantly very

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good friends one

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day octavia was spitting alice with her

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spellbinder badge having freshly

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completed the training courses the evening before

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this was just about to head off to school

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when a beautiful wand actually

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it was one of the fairy godmothers original

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one

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it up in the air pointed due

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north and sent out a stream a

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starry glittering magic

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how i had learned that this

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meant a plot twist had occurred and

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someone was using the full unbridled

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power of one of the artifacts octavia

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shot off in the direction of the wand stopping

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only to discuss the details with another

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spell binder who had already pulled out there

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computer to search

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where the anomaly they

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followed behind and peered over their shoulders

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it looks like little red cloak we've been

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searching for this one for awhile that

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dispel binder who was typing quickly

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on their computer it's been found

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in a students backpack at wilhelm see

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graham hi

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i wonder how it got in there

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he appeared at the footage now playing

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of students pouring into a large building

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no binder zoomed in on one students

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with a slightly

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the backpack we're

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doing get a small corner of ruby red

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fabric that was peeking out of the side

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she never seen such a brilliant red

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color before the club

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it offers some form of protection

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the asked he remembered

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reading the story and seeing the bright red

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cloak on many would love to find

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lists floating around ever after

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during her training

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though you have been paying attention

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kb i gave her usual

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cat grin

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it does protect the wearer from dangers

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that lurk in the shadows just

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like protected live

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read it from the big bad wolf

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no binder that was typing on the computer piped

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up again that looks like

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peter here found the cloak good a rummage sale

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the only one who saw it's magical potential

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right away clearly fell

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binder got up then and began filling a backpack

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with some snacks a nap and a book

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giving off the slightest glow

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we won't be near a portal so we're bringing our

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own octavia explained

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we do that every now and then

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you will be carrying me and the backpack

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to you look like a student so

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you'll blend in and i well

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i'm a cat wait a second

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we're going to get the cloak buckle

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up alice it's mission time

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octavia hopped into the backpack and poked

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her head out of the top as alice

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slung it across her back and ran towards

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her lime green by haiti

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or examined the map and whispered directions

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and to alice's ear and our

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peddled quickly down the familiar twists

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and turns of her neighborhood eventually

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they had written further than ours had ever

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really thought to go on her own the

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town just over where peter

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and the cloak were heading into math class

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part her bike outside the school

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and octavia ducts further down into

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the backpack she crept

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into the empty hallways hearing letters

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from teachers in different rooms

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at one point she turned a corner

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and saw someone leaving the teachers' lounge

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and heading in the direction of an office that

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was just pass were alice stood

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the principal's office

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she leapt into a nearby supply closet

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quickly listening as the footsteps

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auto down the hall

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that was a close one

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she heard the muffled voice of octavia say

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from inside the backpack

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i always put her ears of the door

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and waited until no other sound came

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the side of the disappearing footsteps

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i'm shocked if she put her hand on the door

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knob allowed bell sounded

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throughout the hallways

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the a jump straight up out of the backpack

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in shock and landed on a high cells

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which teetered dangerously at the sudden

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arrival of a cat

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yeah different from there the

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his term the ground

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octavia obliged by leaping forward

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onto another lower self of supplies

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unfortunately the momentum of her

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leap only destabilize the first cel

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further writing

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supplies and printer paper came

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tumbling in octavia and alice's direction

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making and unfortunately loud noise

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as it all clattered to the ground

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the whims that the ruckus but the year

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students filling the halls and hopes

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that would cover their tracks

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octavia left back into the backpack and

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said try to blend in i

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nodded resolutely and went to open

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the door again but it was flung open

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from the other side here

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alice said and surprise as she saw the boy

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standing on the other side of the closet

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he appeared around alice his shoulder

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do i know you

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peter said confused

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with all alice could think to say return

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i heard something crash in

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here are you

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yeah

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alice blurted out unable

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to stop herself

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yeah also unable to stop herself

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said alice keep your composure

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would you

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did your car just talk peter

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sad looking over his shoulders that the students

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who are transitioning to their next classes almost

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begging someone to acknowledge that day

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we're seeing what he was seeing

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now fowler said hopefully

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i gotta go

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peter said then he began walking

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quickly down the hall wade

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alice shouted after him the

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countryside a few stray pens from the fall

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and cells and began her pursuit that

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you watch quickly through the hallways dodging

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other students and teachers making their way to

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new

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class room

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peter

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looked over his shoulder and saw he was

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being chased so he started to pick

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up speed we've got a

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runner octavius said analysis

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ear spring alice on to begin

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running in pursuit of peter now

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running your mouth always a

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teacher said from one of the classrooms alison

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peter began power walking in response

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and she'll peter reached aside exit of

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the school and subbed the doors open

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then he flat out sprinted

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towards the school's football field

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wait

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your own good alice called

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running quickly to catch up with peter

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he was so close to being able to snatch

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that red cloak out of his still partially

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unzipped backpack what

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do you want i didn't do anything

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wrong i bought this fair and square

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peter shouted back

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i mean cloak

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please trust me

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alice panted as she ran full speed

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to close the gap between them

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peter stopped short ahead of her and

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unable to slow her momentum in time

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she ran straight into his back

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the two of them their backpacks

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the cats and the cloak went tumbling

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in all directions

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that reform and for a moment

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then alice began to laugh

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the own peter joined her

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and then octavia to they

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all laughed in a heat for a moment before

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helping one another get up and collect their things

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the ambled over to the bleachers and sat

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catching their broth why

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do you need the cloak peter

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asked eventually taking it up into

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his hands part of

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an organization that keeps really powerful

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items like this safe the

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been looking for the cloak for a while the

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didn't get it physician away until someone

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whose eyes are open to the magic of the world's

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recognized then it revealed it's

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true power

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alice replied

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after a factory

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peter space with frozen in shock

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are you talking about me

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our nodded yeah

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you're one of the few out there who can see magic

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congratulations

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i thought i was imagining it

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when i did know the cloak was magic

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know what you wanted to that's me

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then i really needed that at the time

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my didn't know it was bad to use it though

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peter looks down and seeks

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last oh no worries

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peter how could you have known

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no it's not so bad this

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magic is always out in the world we

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don't make sure things don't get overloaded

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alice offered him a smile

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you a question

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sure

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what did you want to protect yourself from

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oh i just moved

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here i'm new at this school

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i was afraid since i didn't know anyone

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that people would think i was weird or

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i get made fun of why

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would i held this i just felt like

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i would be safe from everything oh

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i get that why did you get a signal

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about the cloak now instead of when i

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first saw

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i always thought for a moment

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i guess the truth is that the cloak is so

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powerful that it started protecting

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you from the good stuff too

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like finding new friends like me

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our hopped up until one of the bleachers with

19:25

a flourish and a goofy dramatic

19:27

bow a slight magical

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aura nearly imperceptible

19:31

seem to emanate from the cloak it's

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magic very presence around alison

19:36

peter

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you wanna be my friend

19:39

there was cracking a smile now

19:43

made so far from here

19:44

fine pretty cool

19:47

peter laugh

19:48

one o'clock keeping you from fully

19:50

living your life protecting

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you to the next level and a dangerous

19:55

one at that think of all the things you might

19:57

have missed out on anyhow

19:59

the message

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whoa here i guess i really

20:03

won't be needing this anymore i've got

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a friend now peter stood

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next to alice and handed over little red

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cloak

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i always looked over at the backpack and then

20:13

it octavia

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somehow it's time

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octavia smiled slightly so only

20:19

alice could see he circled

20:21

around peter speed sizing him

20:23

up making sure he was truly trustworthy

20:27

when she was satisfied she turned back

20:29

to alice sure go

20:31

right ahead set octavia

20:34

whoa your cat does talk

20:36

jump can almost toppled back on

20:38

the bleachers that's not even

20:41

the wildest thing i've ever seen working with the

20:43

spell binders alice

20:45

grin and before he could ask she

20:47

removes the glowing book from her backpack

20:50

the that little red riding hood peter

20:52

asked examining the cover something

20:56

like that octavia replied

20:59

alice opened the book

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with peter on one side and octavia

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perched on her shoulder our

21:05

stood over the open story there

21:08

she was holding her first ever

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retrieved artifact after her

21:12

first successful mission as an official

21:14

spell binder the portal

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a brilliant light opened in the pages

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of the book

21:20

and hours took a deep breath before

21:22

letting go of the magical item

21:25

all three watched as the bright

21:27

red cloak vanished into signing

21:29

swirls of stardust and returned

21:32

happily to ever after

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the and

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story the spell binders

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