Excerpt From The Aftertime Tales-Make and Believe

  It was because the people of Emeria, from the Land of Make and Believe, had bravely stood all around the mountain, facing out wards bravely putting their hands up high in the air.  Magic rays of light and sound came forth from their palms and had bound up the Angerdahs with so many countless good thoughts that they had turned into stones.  You can see them in the Valley of Dreadnaught-all frozen in disbelief. Emeria had made and believed in a better world, so much so that there was no room for the grouchy and pestering Angerdahs. Yicca The Awful was defeated and went off in a roaring, ugly huff to find another land to bother and bring down.

   “On that day Moorea gave us all wishes. Because we believed in them and then let them go, they are now coming true. In one absolute breath she echoed, “It’s a present.”   She pointed up into the sky.

   “Each one is a wish coming true for the person who made it. When enough wishes are made together it brings a new world into being- one that we all made and believed in together.”

Emma took her little friend’s hand in hers. They walked over to the High Hill on Harpwind and sat, waiting patiently in the twilight for the Dream Time Moon to rise. Over the horizon they could see her coming through the bubbles.