In tonight’s rewind bedtime story for kids, we meet Fenella the tiny unicorn! Fenella finds it difficult to find ways to help the creatures of Sleepy Forest, given her tiny size, but a bumblebee named Babs soon makes her realise maybe her littleness is a blessing - after all, who's better to help the teeniest animals in the undergrowth than a tiny unicorn? Relax, get sleepy and let's begin!
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Speaker 1: you for your continued support. You're making a huge difference
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Speaker 1: in helping us improve our little podcast, and you're really
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Speaker 1: helping to make it thrive. In tonight's Sleepy Tale, we
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Speaker 1: will meet a very special unicorn called Finella. She doesn't
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Speaker 1: look like the rest of her unicorn friends, which makes
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Speaker 1: her unhappy. Fanella's size is the issue for she is
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Speaker 1: very very very small, tiny in fact, and everyone includes
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Speaker 1: her thinks that she can't do as much as everybody else.
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Speaker 1: But happily, we're all in for a big surprise. If
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Speaker 1: you've ever received a sparkling ring, or pair of ear
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Speaker 1: rings or tiny gem in a small box, you'll know
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Speaker 1: that great things can come in small packages, and Vanilla
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Speaker 1: is no different. She's magnificent. Let's lie back, take some
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Speaker 1: relaxing breaths, wriggle a little in your comfy bed, and
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Speaker 1: listen to what happens when Vanella the tiny unicorn, starts
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Speaker 1: to see her very special small size has an advantage
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Speaker 1: rather than a problem. This is Vanella the Tiny Unicorn
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Speaker 1: by Alicia Ainslie. Have you ever seen a unicorn for yourself?
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Speaker 1: If you have, then you can count yourself as one
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Speaker 1: of the fortunate ones. Unicorns are beautiful, magical animals that
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Speaker 1: live in the heart of mystical lands such as sleepy forest.
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Speaker 1: Unicorns look just like horses, except they have a range
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Speaker 1: of unique characteristics that set them apart from the horses
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Speaker 1: we see in our countryside fields. For a start, unicorns
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Speaker 1: are much bigger than the horses we see every day.
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Speaker 1: Unicorns are so large and majestic that they can carry
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Speaker 1: the likes of bears and lions around on their backs
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Speaker 1: if they so wish. Unicorns love showing off how strong
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Speaker 1: they are by giving lifts to other creatures. They are
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Speaker 1: sort of like the personal taxis of the mystical kingdom.
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Speaker 1: They can run at almost lightning speeds with their long,
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Speaker 1: muscly legs and get to go wherever they need to
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Speaker 1: be in next to no time. Unicorns do not have
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Speaker 1: boring coats. In fact, unicorns come in all the colors
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Speaker 1: of the rainbow. You might see a bright pink unicorn
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Speaker 1: chatting to a sunny yellow unicorn whilst relaxing by a lake,
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Speaker 1: or you might even spot a midnight blue unicorn racing
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Speaker 1: with an emerald green unicorn through the forest. Yep, unicorns
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Speaker 1: really stand out from the crowd. Some unicorns have wings
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Speaker 1: and can fly through the sky, but most of them
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Speaker 1: remain on the ground. Their long tails can also come
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Speaker 1: in all sorts of shimmering colors. The really lucky ones
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Speaker 1: have multicolored tails, but all are equally beautiful. But the
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Speaker 1: main way that you can identify a unicorn from the
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Speaker 1: rest of the four legged animals of world is by
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Speaker 1: spotting their impressive horns. All unicorns have a long, majestic
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Speaker 1: horn that pokes out of their forehead. A unicorn's magic
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Speaker 1: is held within their horn, which is why their horns
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Speaker 1: sparkle and shimmer with enchanted light. Unicorn horns can grow
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Speaker 1: in all sorts of shapes and sizes. They start off
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Speaker 1: being teeny tiny when a unicorn is born, but as
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Speaker 1: they grow bigger and bigger, their horn grows bigger and
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Speaker 1: bigger too. Some unicorns have twirly horns, some have straight
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Speaker 1: and narrow ones, and others have horns that spiral and
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Speaker 1: coil up into a point. They come in all sorts
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Speaker 1: of shapes and sizes and colors too. Unicorns possess lots
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Speaker 1: of magical powers. Along with their super speed and great strength.
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Speaker 1: They provide good luck and fortune to every one they meet,
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Speaker 1: and they also have healing powers. If you fell over
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Speaker 1: and scraped your knee, then a unicorn could magically make
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Speaker 1: your knee as good as new again, or if you
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Speaker 1: had a bad cough, a unicorn could magically make it disappear.
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Speaker 1: Because of their healing powers, the unicorns regularly travel around,
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Speaker 1: spreading their good luck and healing powers to as many
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Speaker 1: people as possible. Unicorns are very special creatures. When a
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Speaker 1: new child is born into the world, the world becomes
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Speaker 1: a better place. Children are full of so much love
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Speaker 1: and magic that they make the sun shine that little
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Speaker 1: bit brighter, The plants grow a little bit taller and
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Speaker 1: make every living creature on the planet feel a little
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Speaker 1: bit happier. So when Fanella the unicorn was born, the
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Speaker 1: world became a better place just by her being in it.
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Speaker 1: Fanella was born on a cool spring day on the
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Speaker 1: outskirts of Sleepy Forest. Her parents were so excited to
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Speaker 1: meet her for the first time, and they invited all
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Speaker 1: of their friends to meet her in the meadow where
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Speaker 1: they lived. Everybody gathered around to meet the newborn unicorn
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Speaker 1: and waited for Fanella to be revealed. Fanella's mother proudly
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Speaker 1: introduced her baby to the group. Fanella was adorable, and
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Speaker 1: everybody sighed with adoration at the sight of her. Fanella's
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Speaker 1: coat was a soft pink color, and she had a long, shiny,
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Speaker 1: glittering silver tail. Her horn was rainbow colored and twirled
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Speaker 1: to a pointed tip, just like ice cream on a cone.
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Speaker 1: Fanella pranced about the feet of the towering grown up
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Speaker 1: unicorns excitedly. She hadn't seen so many of her kind before,
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Speaker 1: and she was delighted to meet them all. Isn't she
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Speaker 1: a darling Althea, the purple unicorn, gushed watching Fanella trot around. Yes,
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Speaker 1: she is noeh Lani the white unicorn agreed, before adding,
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Speaker 1: but doesn't she seem a bit on the small side.
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Speaker 1: Vanella's mother was taken aback. She hadn't noticed anything out
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Speaker 1: of the ordinary about her newborn daughter. She's a baby,
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Speaker 1: of course she's small. Vanella's mother defended her daughter. She
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Speaker 1: will grow up to be just as big as everybody else.
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Speaker 1: Don't you worry, baby Fanella gazed up at the tall
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Speaker 1: and regal unicorns around her and smiled with glee. She
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Speaker 1: couldn't wait to grow up and one day be as
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Speaker 1: lofty and as impressive as everybody else. However, as the
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Speaker 1: years passed, Fanella came to realize that things weren't going
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Speaker 1: quite to plan. Instead of growing up to be large
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Speaker 1: just like everybody else, Finella was somehow remaining the same
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Speaker 1: tiny size. She just didn't grow. While all the other
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Speaker 1: children were getting taller every day, Fella was staying the
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Speaker 1: same miniature size. She was desperate to grow bigger so
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Speaker 1: that she could carry out the same unicorn duties as
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Speaker 1: everybody else, but due to her small size, she couldn't
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Speaker 1: help out. She was too small to carry any of
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Speaker 1: the forest animals on her back, and she was too
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Speaker 1: slow to keep up with the other unicorns running their errands.
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Speaker 1: She didn't possess enough healing magic within her to help
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Speaker 1: out the large animals of Sleepy Forest, and she couldn't
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Speaker 1: even pull the carts of fruit and supplies with the
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Speaker 1: other unicorns because she wasn't strong enough. Fanella felt positively helpless.
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Speaker 1: Fanella tried every way she could think of to make
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Speaker 1: herself grow bigger. She ate extra portions at dinner, she
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Speaker 1: did her stretches every day, and she wished on the
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Speaker 1: stars every single night. But no matter how hard she
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Speaker 1: wished or how much she tried, Fanella stayed the same
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Speaker 1: tiny size. She was beginning to think that she wasn't
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Speaker 1: destined to be a normal unicorn like everybody else. Fanella's
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Speaker 1: mother didn't know what to do either. She tried feeding
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Speaker 1: Fanella lots of vegetables to help her grow big and strong,
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Speaker 1: but it didn't seem to be making much difference. She
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Speaker 1: even tried using her healing powers on Finella to help
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Speaker 1: her bones grow bigger, but to no avail. It seemed
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Speaker 1: that Fanella was destined to be a miniature unicorn forever.
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Speaker 1: After years of trying and failing to grow bigger, Fanella
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Speaker 1: and her mother decided that it was time to face
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Speaker 1: the facts. Fanella was probably never going to be a
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Speaker 1: large unicorn, so she had to accept herself for the
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Speaker 1: pint sized pony that she was. Fanella accepted this, but
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Speaker 1: she was adamant that her small stature wouldn't hold her
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Speaker 1: back any longer. She might not be able to do
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Speaker 1: as much as the other unicorns, but she would do
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Speaker 1: her best to keep up. One day, Vanella's friends Zelder, Flynn,
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Speaker 1: and Aslan were heading towards Sleepy Forest to carry out
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Speaker 1: their duties for the day. A tree that a family
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Speaker 1: of birds lived in had fallen down in the middle
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Speaker 1: of the forest. Zelder, Flynn and Aslan had been instructed
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Speaker 1: to push the tree back upright in time for nightfall
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Speaker 1: so that the birds could be back in their tree
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Speaker 1: again in time for Bedvanella followed her friends as they
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Speaker 1: approached the entrance to Sleepy Forest at the edge of
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Speaker 1: their meadow. For every long step that they took, Fanella
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Speaker 1: had to take four tiny fast steps just to keep up.
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Speaker 1: Can I come with you and help, Fanella pleaded with
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Speaker 1: her friends. Zella sighed and replied, we would love for
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Speaker 1: you to come, Vanella, but you won't be able to
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Speaker 1: keep up with us. We only have a limited amount
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Speaker 1: of time to fix the tree, and it's all the
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Speaker 1: way in the middle of Sleepy Forest. We will have
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Speaker 1: to run there and you won't be able to keep
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Speaker 1: up with us. Despite Zelder's rational explanation, Fanella was still
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Speaker 1: determined to join her friends. Please Fvanella begged. I'll try
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Speaker 1: and keep up, I promise, and if I can't keep up,
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Speaker 1: then you can just go on without me. I won't
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Speaker 1: be annoyed. Zelder, Flynn, and Aslan all looked at each
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Speaker 1: other for support. They didn't want to leave their friend behind,
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Speaker 1: but they also had an important task on their hoofs. Eventually,
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Speaker 1: they gave in to Fanella's request. Okay, Fanella, you can
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Speaker 1: come with us, Flynn appeased her. But we can't wait
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Speaker 1: for for you, so you'll have to keep up with
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Speaker 1: our pace. Fanella leapt for joy. She was delighted to
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Speaker 1: get to join her friends on a mission. Her rainbow
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Speaker 1: horn began to gleam with bright, multi colored light. Her
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Speaker 1: horn always did that when she was happy. Okay, then
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Speaker 1: let's go, Finella commanded, leading the way into sleepy forest.
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Speaker 1: At first, Fanella did well to keep up with her
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Speaker 1: friends as they trotted off into the depths of the forest.
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Speaker 1: She was lagging behind a little, but she could still
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Speaker 1: see her friends clearly as they darted in and out
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Speaker 1: of all the trees. But after some time, Fanella found
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Speaker 1: herself growing weary and her little legs couldn't take it
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Speaker 1: much longer. Keep up, Fanella, as Land called out from
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Speaker 1: far ahead, but as Land's voice quickly faded out as he,
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Speaker 1: Zelda and Flynn zoomed off further into the forest, leaving
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Speaker 1: Fanella behind. Gasping for breath. Fanella decided to rest by
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Speaker 1: a tree and catch her breath. She had done very
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Speaker 1: well to keep up this far, but she had to
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Speaker 1: admit defeat. Fanella just wasn't built in the same way
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Speaker 1: as her friends, so she couldn't do the same things
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Speaker 1: that they could. Finella was beginning to wonder if she
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Speaker 1: would ever be good enough to do anything to help
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Speaker 1: Othersvanella took a deep breath and slowly sighed. She felt
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Speaker 1: much better now that she had stopped for a break.
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Speaker 1: When she was ready, she would make her way back
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Speaker 1: out of Sleepy Forest and enjoy a leisurely stroll. Fanella
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Speaker 1: preferred to take things slow anyway. It meant that she
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Speaker 1: could take the time to appreciate everything around her more.
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Speaker 1: She would feel much better once she was back in
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Speaker 1: the meadow again. Once Vanella's heartbeat had slowed down, she
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Speaker 1: stood back up and began her journey through Sleepy Forest
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Speaker 1: back to the meadow. As she plodded along, She gazed
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Speaker 1: at all of the giant trees that soared all the
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Speaker 1: way up to the sky, and listened to the birds
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Speaker 1: singing in the trees and the owls hooting in their nests.
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Speaker 1: She admired the beautiful beds of flowers down on her level,
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Speaker 1: and stooped to smell the lilies. They smelt delightful. Fanella
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Speaker 1: closed her eyes and took a deep sniff of the flowers.
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Speaker 1: All of a sudden, she felt something tickle the end
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Speaker 1: of her nose. She opened her eyes and was amused
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Speaker 1: to see a little bumble bee had landed there. Oh hello,
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Speaker 1: Fanella greeted the fuzzy little bumble bee. The bumble bee
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Speaker 1: waved its teeth hand at her and tucked its wings
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Speaker 1: in lazily. I'm sorry if I've disturbed you, the bumblebee responded,
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Speaker 1: I'm just so tired from buzzing around all day, and
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Speaker 1: your nose looked like the perfect place to stop and
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Speaker 1: rest for a while. Vanella giggled at the bumblebee's unexpected arrival.
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Speaker 1: It's all right, she replied. You're very welcome to rest
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Speaker 1: on me if you're tired. The bumblebee thanked Vanella and
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Speaker 1: introduced herself. The bumblebee was called Babs, and Fanella could
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Speaker 1: see that Babs was carrying around two big bags of
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Speaker 1: pollen on the back of her legs. They you must
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Speaker 1: be pretty heavy for such a little bug, Vanella thought
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Speaker 1: to herself. Where do you live, Vanella asked the weary bug.
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Speaker 1: Babs the bumblebee explained that she lived in a hive
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Speaker 1: with all the rest of her family and friends not
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Speaker 1: too far away. Would you like me to give you
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Speaker 1: a lift home? Vanella offered kindly. Oh yes, please, Babs
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Speaker 1: replied gratefully. I'm so tired. I don't think I could
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Speaker 1: carry all of this pollen back to the hive by myself.
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Speaker 1: Vanella stood up tall and proud and asked Babs to
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Speaker 1: guide the way back to her hive. Babbs remained perched
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Speaker 1: on the tip of Fanella's nose and led the way
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Speaker 1: for Fanella to take her home. Fanella felt giddy. This
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Speaker 1: was the first time that she had ever given a
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Speaker 1: lift to another creature. She was far too small to
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Speaker 1: carry the animals that the rest of the unicorns regularly
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Speaker 1: taxied around, but Babs the bumblebee was the perfect size
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Speaker 1: for Fanella to carry with ease. Fanella carried Babs all
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Speaker 1: the way home to her hive. Thank you very much, Fanella,
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Speaker 1: Bab said gratefully as she gazed up at her hive
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Speaker 1: in the tree. I'm glad I bumped into unicorn today.
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Speaker 1: You guys are always so Helpfulvanella sighed and bowed her
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Speaker 1: head in embarrassment. I'm not a very good unicorn, Fanella admitted, disappointedly.
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Speaker 1: I'm too small to carry anyone around or help out.
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Speaker 1: I just get in the way. Babs looked into Fanella's
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Speaker 1: eyes and frowned. I don't believe that for a second,
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Speaker 1: Babs commented, you are clearly a very good unicorn. Everybody
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Speaker 1: forgets about creatures like me because we're so small, but
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Speaker 1: we need help just like the bigger animals. You just
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Speaker 1: help me out when I was in need. I think
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Speaker 1: that makes you an excellent unicorn, just like all the others.
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Speaker 1: Fanella smiled and her heart lit up with hope. Perhaps
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Speaker 1: she could be useful after all. Just because she wasn't
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Speaker 1: big enough to help the larger animals of the forest,
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Speaker 1: that didn't mean that she couldn't help out the small
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Speaker 1: ones instead. Babs the Bumblebee said goodbye to Fanella, and
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Speaker 1: then flew away up to her beehive, carrying her heavy
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Speaker 1: bags of pollen at her sides. When she landed at
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Speaker 1: the door to the hive, she turned around one last
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Speaker 1: time and waved to Fanella before disappearing inside. Fanella paused
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Speaker 1: for a few moments and thought about what Babs had said.
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Speaker 1: If the bigger unicorns were focusing on helping all the
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Speaker 1: large animals, maybe they couldn't see that the small ones
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Speaker 1: needed help too. Maybe Fanella could be the helping hand
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Speaker 1: that the smaller animals needed. Finella wandered around the forest
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Speaker 1: in search of other small animals. She passed a lion
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Speaker 1: called Leo, but he was far too big for Vanilla
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Speaker 1: to carry. She also met a bear named Lana who
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Speaker 1: had stubbed her toe on a log, but she was
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Speaker 1: too big for Fanella to help out too. Fanella was
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Speaker 1: struggling to find any other animal. They must either be
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Speaker 1: hiding or too tiny to spot. Then, just as Fanella
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Speaker 1: had almost given up hope, she heard a wheezy squeak
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Speaker 1: come from inside a bush. Hello, is anyone there? Fanella
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Speaker 1: called out into the thick bush. She heard the wheezy
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Speaker 1: squeak again and saw the leaves begin to rustle. A
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Speaker 1: little hedgehog emerged from the bottom of the bush, coughing
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Speaker 1: and spluttering and holding a handkerchief in its hand. Do cubduk?
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Speaker 1: The hedgehog sniffed of got a cold, and I don't
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Speaker 1: want you to catch it. The hedgehog appeared to be
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Speaker 1: really struggling with his bad cough and runny nose. The
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Speaker 1: hedgehog held his handkerchief and blew his nose as hard
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Speaker 1: as he could, so hard, in fact, that his whole
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Speaker 1: body shuddered with the blustering pressure. This was a perfect
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Speaker 1: opportunity for Finella to test out her healing powers. She
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Speaker 1: had never been able to heal another animal before on
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Speaker 1: the account of them all being too large, but surely
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Speaker 1: her magic would be enough to help out this little hedgehog.
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Speaker 1: Closed her eyes and focused her rainbow horn began to
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Speaker 1: glitter and shine with magical light. Then the little hedgehog
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Speaker 1: started to magically glow too. What is happening? The hedgehog croaked,
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Speaker 1: before letting out a long cough. Vanella felt all warm
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Speaker 1: and fuzzy inside. She felt the magic flow through her
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Speaker 1: and out of the tip of her horn. When she
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Speaker 1: opened her eyes, she saw that the hedgehog was standing
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Speaker 1: still in amazement. His nose was no longer blocked and runny,
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Speaker 1: and his voice was no longer croaky and hoarse, with
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Speaker 1: not a single cough in sight. Wow, the hedgehog gasped,
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Speaker 1: You healed my cold. I didn't think that unicorns helped
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Speaker 1: small animals like us, Fanella laughed charmingly. We help all animals,
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Speaker 1: big or small, she replied. The hedgehog was very grateful
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Speaker 1: for her healing help and offered her his snotty hanky
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Speaker 1: as a gesture of thanks. She politely declined the offer
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Speaker 1: and wandered back off through sleepy forest in search of
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Speaker 1: more small creatures to assist. She bumped into a slithering
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Speaker 1: snail who was on his way to a party. Ah
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Speaker 1: m late, the snow paced snail cried with dismay, I'm
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Speaker 1: going to miss playing past the parcel. Fanella offered to
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Speaker 1: give the snaire a lift on her back to the party,
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Speaker 1: and in next to no time she had carried him
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Speaker 1: across the way to where his friend's birthday celebrations were underway.
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Speaker 1: It was only a very short journey for Fanella, and
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Speaker 1: took her only two minutes to walk there. But for
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Speaker 1: the snail, that would have been a very long journey. Indeed,
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Speaker 1: he would have definitely missed the party if it weren't
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Speaker 1: for Fanella helping him out. She also helped a mouse
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Speaker 1: called Milly carry her shopping home. Fanella was turning into
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Speaker 1: somewhat of a taxi for the smaller animals of the forest,
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Speaker 1: and she loved it. She finally felt like she had
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Speaker 1: a purpose. The other unicorns might be able to help
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Speaker 1: the larger animals of the forest, but Fanella could help
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Speaker 1: the smaller ones that everyone else had forgotten about. They
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Speaker 1: needed help just as much as the big animals. Fanella
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Speaker 1: returned home to the meadow that evening with a new
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Speaker 1: spring in her step. She told her mother all about
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Speaker 1: the animals she had helped that day, and her mother
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Speaker 1: couldn't have been prouder. And when Fanella bumped into her
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Speaker 1: friend's Zella Flynn, and Aslan, she stopped them in their
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Speaker 1: tracks as they tried to apologize for leaving her behind.
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Speaker 1: If they hadn't gone on ahead, then she never would
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Speaker 1: have discovered what she could do and found her own path.
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Speaker 1: She was grateful to them for giving her the chance
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Speaker 1: to join them. From then on, Fanella's main unicorn duties
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Speaker 1: became helping out the small animals of Sleepy Forest. While
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Speaker 1: the bigger unicorns raced around in a mad dash, assisting
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Speaker 1: the giant animals as they always did, Vanella took her
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Speaker 1: time tending to the tiny animals that everyone else had
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Speaker 1: forgotten about. Admired Fanella for her forward thinking and care.
00:32:05
Speaker 1: The small animals were all very grateful for her, and
00:32:10
Speaker 1: the larger unicorns were all very impressed by her. Fanella
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Speaker 1: didn't let her miniature size hold her back from finding
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Speaker 1: her purpose. She just had to make her own path
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Speaker 1: and get to know her own strengths rather than striving
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Speaker 1: to match others. Fanella, the tiny unicorn, had never felt
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Speaker 1: prouder to be exactly who she was. Even small creatures
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Speaker 1: can make a big impact in their own way.