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GRAYSON
One moment, I’m in the root heart where I grew up. The next thing I know, I wake up on a strange bed. My head feels hazy.
What happened, exactly?
Little by little, memories appear. I found a blue mirror and stepped through. That brought me to my mother, father, and old home. Next, a round yellow portal appeared on my bedroom wall. Lady R and Prism Master showed up. Smoke choked me. I passed out.
And now I’m waking up somewhere else.
Where is here, anyway?
It takes some doing to get my body to move at all. Eventually, I’m able to sit up in bed and look around. A weight of despair settles into my bones.
This is the Bartlebee. It’s where I grew up under the not-so-tender mercies of the Prism Master.
My old bedroom looms around me. The place is an odd mix of fairy tale cott
