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“Prince… Prince… what the hell!” he boohter!”

“Sir, I aritted between his teeth

“Dad, he’s not insane,” I rushed to put in “I know this sounds…” my mind searched for a word, my eyes found Tor’s and then it came to me, “fantastical” I heard and saw Tor draw in an annoyed breath and my eyes shot to my father “But it’s true”

“Um, maybe… uh, Tor,” Mos are, uh… intense and we haven’t seen Cora in awhile, perhaps you could go so we could have sohter?”

“I’ll not do that,” Tor replied immediately

“And why the hell not?” my father returned just as ihting for control, “as Cora explained to you, we are at the ic and I do not want to be far frolared at hiic This is insane,” he breathed with disgust

“I would thank you to stop saying that,” Tor said softly and Dad’s eyes cut back to hi

“And I would thank you to get up froet the hell out ofthat, out of hter’s life!”

Tor’s face turned to stone, he rose out of his seat, tossing his napkin to the table and I kneas time to intervene

So I shot out of my chair and rushed around the table to put ed

He didn’t even look at lowered up at Tor “I’m busy, sweetheart I’m about to escort this man out”

“Dad,” I squeezed his arm, “listen Please, listen It’s true All of it I woke up in a parallel universe A fairytale land A fantasyland Where they ride horses and birds talk to you and the air shilitter in it But there is a me there like there is a Tor here All the same people are in both worlds, I reckon, and I itched with the Cora of their world”

Dad sloung his head to face enuinely thought I’d gone around the bend and this thought pained hi my other hand to take his other arm

“I know it sounds crazy, trust me, I know But it isn’t I woke up and all the furniture in my room onky, like out of an animated kid’sin and she was so beautiful, so graceful, it was unreal Her name was Rosa and…”

I stopped because the ot still under rew heavy

“Rosa?” my mother whispered and I turned my head to look at her “In this parallel universe, you had a sister na at my Mom as even paler and when I did her eyes moved swiftly to my father and she put a hand out flat on the table

“Moo to her because she looked like she was about ready either to burst into tears or pass out

“Rosa,” ot to her, crouched down, her eyes were tipped up to my Dad and I covered her hand on the table with mine and squeezed When I did, her head slowly turned to ods,” Torat my ry energy

I looked back toI don’t know?”