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some children wake in a strange place
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"...Do snakes sleep?"

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"I think the one that bit me was sleeping. And they don't have beds," Malen says dubiously. "It won't be something obvious. Maybe something not alive?"

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"Something dead then? But the ghosts talk..."

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Kenet and Emen start muttering 'bed' to themselves. "Lake bed, death bed, river bed, bedbug," Kenet lists.

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"What's a death bed?"

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"Uh. The place where you die, I think."

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"So, the boiling lake, drake jaws, the valley of thorns..."

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"Bodies have legs and don't run though, so I don't think it works. Lakes don't run, bugs have legs, rivers run?"

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"Rivers have mouths!" Hazel realises. "That's where the pain-spiders have their nests."

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"It's a river!" Malen declares.

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"Good!" Sophia says, clapping get hands. "Now: a red jewel in green nest am I. Those who take me die. Those who use me live. What am I?"

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"Easy," says Hazel. "Poison berries. That got Dimestria once."

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"You guys are doing well! Hm. I cannot be seen, cannot be felt, cannot be heard, cannot be smelt. I lie behind stars and under hill, and empty holes I fill. I come first and follow after, end life, kill laughter. What am I?"

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"Death?"

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"Nope!" she sing-songs. "Two more guesses!"

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"I'm guessing she doesn't mean the moles." 

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"It's behind stars. Probably either a color or the sky, and the sky isn't under a hill. I don't think."

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"A really quiet bird?"

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"You can see birds. And colors."

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"I think there's an invisible monster in our garden."

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"Can you touch it? Is it behind stars? I think this's a trick like the river one. I don't think it's a thing."

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"Night time?"

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That seems to give Kenet an idea. "Not nighttime, but what's in nighttime! Darkness!"

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"Exactly! Congradulations, you have passed my test! Which of you wishes to enter my realm?"

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"I think I'd like to. And that's good that worked, I was gonna guess 'the goddess Rune' next and she's a bit of a stretch..."

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