In tonight's bedtime story for kids, we visit our magician friend Maggie and her assistant Marshmallow, as they try out a new gizmo Thomas has made that is designed to allow them to step into their own dreams! Let's see if it works. Relax, get sleepy, and let’s begin!
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Speaker 1: miss any In tonight's story, we're joining young Maggie in
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Speaker 1: her homemade imaginarium as she travels through her daydreams, exploring
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Speaker 1: the wonders that her mind holds, and rather wonderfully, her
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Speaker 1: friend Thomas has invented a little gadget or gizmo that
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Speaker 1: allows them to enter their dreamlands for real. Are you
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Speaker 1: ready to let your imagination roam free and also enter
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Speaker 1: into Maggie's mind? Okay, let's get ready by lying back
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Speaker 1: in bed, let your eyes harass gently closed and focus
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Speaker 1: on breathing gently through your nose in and out, in
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Speaker 1: and out, in, out, in out, lovely. Just continue softly breathing,
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Speaker 1: and I'll introduce you again to Maggie and her pet rabbit, Marshmallow. Oh,
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Speaker 1: and her good friend Thomas. This is Maggie and the
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Speaker 1: Imaginarium's new gizmo by Luke Prendergast. It had been several
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Speaker 1: months since Maggie the Magician had set up her imaginarium
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Speaker 1: in her back garden, an it certainly hadn't gotten boring yet.
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Speaker 1: From the outside, the Imaginarium could trick people. To the
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Speaker 1: innocent eye. It looked just like a camping tent set
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Speaker 1: up in the garden, with green bunting around the top
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Speaker 1: of it in a flag poking out of its peak,
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Speaker 1: depicting a bright white rabbit identical to Maggie's best friend
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Speaker 1: and magician's assistant, Marshmallow. The truth was the imaginarium was
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Speaker 1: no ordinary camping tent. In fact, it was a place
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Speaker 1: of the most exciting and mysterious magic Maggie had ever
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Speaker 1: had the good fortune of discovering. Because when you stepped
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Speaker 1: inside the Imaginarium, her very wondrous thing happened. You found
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Speaker 1: yourself stepping inside your very own imagination. As you lay
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Speaker 1: on your back and looked up, the canvas roof shifted
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Speaker 1: and transformed, and soon enough it presented a whole world,
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Speaker 1: like a ginormous three dimensional screen, projecting your mind inside out,
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Speaker 1: all so that you could explore it. Maggie and Marshmallow
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Speaker 1: had enjoyed hours upon hours of fun inviting their friends
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Speaker 1: and family into the imaginarium so they could explore their imaginations.
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Speaker 1: When Maggie invited her mum in the imaginarium showed how
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Speaker 1: her imagination often took the form of the most perfectly
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Speaker 1: idyllic tropical island. You could imagine palm trees and white sands,
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Speaker 1: sun lounges and lapping waves, endless ice, cold mango juice,
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Speaker 1: and a parrot who flapped its wings to keep recall.
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Speaker 1: Interestingly enough, the island boasted a huge library, too, which
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Speaker 1: Maggie was sure wasn't true. Of most tiny tropical islands.
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Speaker 1: But her mum did love to read, she supposed, and
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Speaker 1: the imagination can do whatever it wishes. When Maggie invited
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Speaker 1: her dad in, things got even weirder. Her dad's imagination
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Speaker 1: appeared to be populated exclusively by cars, but these cars
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Speaker 1: also happened to play football. Cars of ever every color,
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Speaker 1: red and green and black and silver whizzed all over
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Speaker 1: the place, kicking balls at each other, scoring goals. Lying
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Speaker 1: on his back in the imaginarium, Maggie's dad whooped and hollered,
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Speaker 1: just like he did when he was watching a match
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Speaker 1: on TV. Until that is, he saw a little law
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Speaker 1: mower chugging through his imagination, at which point he abruptly
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Speaker 1: jumped up said oops, I forgot, And the next thing
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Speaker 1: she knew, Maggie could hear the sound of an engine
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Speaker 1: in the garden and the smell of freshly cut grass.
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Speaker 1: So Maggie certainly had a lot of fun exploring other
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Speaker 1: people's imaginations with them. But Truce be told, there was
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Speaker 1: nothing more fun than exploring her own. Even though this
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Speaker 1: might sound a little confusing, Maggie's imagination was richer and
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Speaker 1: more spectacular than she could ever have imagined really, as
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Speaker 1: if they were sitting in a spaceship out exploring the
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Speaker 1: Solar System, or in a little submarine diving into the
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Speaker 1: depths of the ocean. Maggie and Marshmallow peered up into
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Speaker 1: the imaginarium as though a little glass window, discovering the
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Speaker 1: innumerable worlds that existed inside Maggie's brain. At the moment,
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Speaker 1: Maggie's brain was particularly full of dragons. Often they could
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Speaker 1: see them soaring through the sky in big puffs of smoke.
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Speaker 1: If there was one problem, though, one little complaint about
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Speaker 1: the imaginarium that Maggie had, it was that you could
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Speaker 1: only watch your imagination from afar. Sometimes she wished she
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Speaker 1: could step down through the window and into her imagination
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Speaker 1: and touch and smell and interact with all the wonderful
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Speaker 1: things she found there. Now you might remember that the
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Speaker 1: last time we met Maggie, she was showing her school
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Speaker 1: friend Thomas around the imaginarium. In Thomas's imagination, he was
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Speaker 1: an astronaut, and they explored planets and meteorites and comets
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Speaker 1: until they all got so tired they fell asleep. Where
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Speaker 1: Maggie was a wizard at magic, Thomas was a dap
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Speaker 1: hand at all things technological. He loved taking computers apart
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Speaker 1: and putting them back together again. He'd built a miniature
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Speaker 1: model car, and he was even trying to build his
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Speaker 1: own spaceship. But after his thrilling experience in Maggie's imaginarium,
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Speaker 1: a new idea lit up like a light bulb in
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Speaker 1: his mind. And when he got home, he got straight
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Speaker 1: to work. And so it came that one spring afternoon,
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Speaker 1: Maggie was in her garden sharing a carrot with Marshmallow.
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Speaker 1: She would snap a piece off and crunch it between
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Speaker 1: her teeth, and then she'd let Marshmallow delicately nibble on
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Speaker 1: the end. They were quite contentedly doing this when Maggie's
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Speaker 1: mom stuck her head out of the door. Maggie, Thomas
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Speaker 1: is here to see you. Oh, Maggie exclaimed, quickly, excited
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Speaker 1: to see her friend. Could you tell him to come
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Speaker 1: out to the garden please, m'm A minute later, Thomas
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Speaker 1: appeared at the garden door. He was wearing a bright
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Speaker 1: green shirt and in his hands he carried a cardboard box. Hi, Maggie,
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Speaker 1: he said, with a big smile on his face. Hello Thomas.
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Speaker 1: Maggie replied she was looking at the box in his hand,
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Speaker 1: but she was carrying as though it contained something very
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Speaker 1: valuable or sacred. She could tell from her her tingly
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Speaker 1: magician's senses that there was something special about the box.
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Speaker 1: What is that you got there, she asked him. Oh this,
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Speaker 1: said Thomas, his smile turning into a cheeky grin. Well, Maggie,
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Speaker 1: this is what I'll come to show you. He lay
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Speaker 1: the box on the ground and knelt beside it. Maggie
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Speaker 1: came and knelt next to him, and even Marshmallow hopped over.
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Speaker 1: The carrot still clutched in his paw and his little
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Speaker 1: pink nose twitching curiously in the direction of the box,
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Speaker 1: very carefully, as though whatever was inside was so delicate
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Speaker 1: that it might dissolve into dust at any sudden movement.
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Speaker 1: Thomas unfolded the top of the box. He sunk his
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Speaker 1: hands inside and took out what appeared to be a
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Speaker 1: small metal computer chip. He told Maggie is a gizmo
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Speaker 1: for the imaginarium. But the imaginarium, Maggie thought a little
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Speaker 1: bit confused. What's a gizmo? She asked, A gizmo is
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Speaker 1: But then Thomas paused and put his fingers to his
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Speaker 1: Chin thoughtfully, Wow, uh, gizmo is just one of these.
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Speaker 1: And then he explained to Maggie that he had been
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Speaker 1: so filled with thrill and excitement when she'd first showed
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Speaker 1: him her imaginarium that he was immediately struck with an
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Speaker 1: idea that he just couldn't get out of his head.
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Speaker 1: He'd thought how amazing it might be for him to
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Speaker 1: be able to invent a little device, a gizmo that
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Speaker 1: could be attached to the imaginarium so that not only
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Speaker 1: could you float around your imagination observing its contents, but
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Speaker 1: actually step inside it. Maggie felt her heart start to
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Speaker 1: beat with excitement. Step inside, She asked how well, Thomas said,
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Speaker 1: if my gizmo has worked, it can help convince your
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Speaker 1: imagination that your body has gone into your magical imaginarian
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Speaker 1: with it. So then even while you're still lying on
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Speaker 1: the floor, as far as you know, you're wandering around, well,
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Speaker 1: wandering around the inside of your head. He gave her
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Speaker 1: a hopeful smile. That's if it works, he added, that
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Speaker 1: is amazing, Thomas, Maggie said, getting straight to her feet.
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Speaker 1: We have to try it out right now. So the
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Speaker 1: three friends, Maggie, Marshmallow, and Thomas, who bore the gizmo
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Speaker 1: carefully in his hands, stood and went inside the imaginarium.
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Speaker 1: Maggie watched with curiosity and a fair bit of anticipation
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Speaker 1: as Thomas went to one of the imaginarium's corners and
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Speaker 1: started fiddling with it. I just have to weave the
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Speaker 1: gizmo into the very fabric of the imaginarium, he explained,
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Speaker 1: and then it should work. When he was done, Thomas
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Speaker 1: stepped back. There in the corner, Maggie could see the
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Speaker 1: gizmo attached to the side of the tent and twinkling.
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Speaker 1: Now it was time to give it a go. They
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Speaker 1: all lay on the floor and Maggie asked whose imagination
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Speaker 1: they should enter, yours, Maggie, Thomas said, straightway, it's your imaginarium.
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Speaker 1: You should go first. Okay, everyone, Maggie said, close your eyes,
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Speaker 1: relax your mind, and count to five. They all did
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Speaker 1: as she asked, and when they opened their eyes again,
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Speaker 1: the ceiling of the imaginarium had transformed into a night
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Speaker 1: sky covered with billions and billions of bright, twinkling stars.
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Speaker 1: Then they all zoomed towards the stars, or maybe the
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Speaker 1: stars zoomed towards them. Either way, they traveled through the
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Speaker 1: huge universe of Maggie's teeming imagination, watching all the possible
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Speaker 1: worlds of her mind fly by. Where are we off to,
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Speaker 1: Thomas asked. The Marshmallow gave a little flap of his ears,
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Speaker 1: as if to say, just wait, you'll see soon enough.
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Speaker 1: Soon enough, the ceiling of the imaginarium shimmered brightly, and
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Speaker 1: then it appeared that they were sailing over an ancient
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Speaker 1: land with lakes and mountains, valleys and craters. Look, said Maggie,
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Speaker 1: and Thomas looked up, and they all watched as a
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Speaker 1: big green dragon flapped its wings and flew above them,
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Speaker 1: little pendrils of smoke trailing from its nostrils. I don't
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Speaker 1: know why, Maggie said, but I've been thinking a lot
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Speaker 1: about dragons recently. But don't worry, she added, sensing Thomas
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Speaker 1: shiver with nerves beside her. They're super friendly dragons, trust
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Speaker 1: I'd know they live in my imagination. That's good, said Thomas,
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Speaker 1: because the gizmo's about to kick in. Can you feel
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Speaker 1: it now? Maggie could feel it, and Marshmallow too. It
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Speaker 1: felt like falling, but upwards, falling up into the roof
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Speaker 1: of the imaginarium. There was not an entirely unpleasant feeling
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Speaker 1: of flipping head over heel and then pop. The three
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Speaker 1: friends were suddenly standing on solid ground. They looked all
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Speaker 1: about them. They found themselves on a flat plane of
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Speaker 1: dusty ground, with big patches of long grass growing here
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Speaker 1: and there, a few trees taller than anything Thomas had
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Speaker 1: ever imagined before, and some huge boulders that looked like
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Speaker 1: they'd been shaped and rolled by the hands of giants.
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Speaker 1: Maggie stamped on the ground. It was firm. Then she
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Speaker 1: knelt down and touched the grass, which felt just like
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Speaker 1: the grass in the real world, cool and soft and
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Speaker 1: delicate on her fingers. Wow, Thomas, she said, the gizmos
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Speaker 1: really worked. We really are in my imagination. So the
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Speaker 1: three friends wondered, or in the case of Marshmallow, hopped
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Speaker 1: through Maggie's imagination, looking everywhere in wonder at how real
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Speaker 1: everything felt, how absolutely perfectly Thomas's technological gizmo had worked.
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Speaker 1: They turned the corner of a path that snaked round
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Speaker 1: one of the life large boulders and came upon a
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Speaker 1: bright blue dragon with a crest of pink spikes leading
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Speaker 1: all the way from the crown of his head down
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Speaker 1: his spine and to the tip of his long tail.
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Speaker 1: He had his head in a bush, as though he
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Speaker 1: were looking for something deep inside it. Whoa, whispered Thomas,
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Speaker 1: grabbling Maggie's arm. But Maggie said there was nothing to
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Speaker 1: worry about. Like she'd said, all the dragons here were friendly,
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Speaker 1: and as if to prove her point, Marshmallow bounced right
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Speaker 1: up to the bright blue dragon and said hello. Oh, hello,
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Speaker 1: little Robert, said the dragon in a deep, kind of
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Speaker 1: sulky voice, and hello, little humans, how are all of you? Maggie,
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Speaker 1: approaching the dragon with Thomas, told him they were all
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Speaker 1: very well and introduced themselves by name. The dragon told
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Speaker 1: them he was called Smoky, but he said this in
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Speaker 1: an equally sulky voice. May I ask you, mister Smoky,
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Speaker 1: Maggie said, a little tentatively, But you seem a little sad?
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Speaker 1: Is everything okay? Smoky? The dragon shook his head and
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Speaker 1: with a deep sigh, explained that he was feeling a
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Speaker 1: little low because he had lost all of his dragon eggs.
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Speaker 1: That's why he'd been looking in the bush, he explained,
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Speaker 1: because he thought that one might be in there. How
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Speaker 1: did you lose your eggs? Thomas asked him, and the
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Speaker 1: dragon pointed behind him at a tall hill. He told
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Speaker 1: them that he lived on top of that hill and
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Speaker 1: had been looking after his stack of eggs. But in
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Speaker 1: the middle of the night he'd been having a very
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Speaker 1: exciting dream about flying at top speeds, when he had
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Speaker 1: accidentally swiped his tail across his cave and hit his
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Speaker 1: pile of eggs, and off they'd rolled down the hill,
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Speaker 1: scattered all across the land. They're very strong, he said,
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Speaker 1: so there's no chance they've broken. But they're all over
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Speaker 1: the place now and I can't find them. Just then,
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Speaker 1: he paused and put a claw in the air. Hear that,
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Speaker 1: he said, And in fact they could a low humming sound,
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Speaker 1: like someone singing a quiet melody. That's the sound. And
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Speaker 1: egg makes smoke, he said. He dove back into the bush.
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Speaker 1: When he came out, he was holding a pale, pink egg.
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Speaker 1: He looked briefly relieved. Got one, he said, and slipped
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Speaker 1: it back into the sack shore he had around his neck.
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Speaker 1: He gave a big, unexpected smile, which then quickly faded away. Ah,
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Speaker 1: there are so many more profined, he added. Maggie and
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Speaker 1: Thomas must have had the same thought. At the same time,
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Speaker 1: because they exchanged a brief look and a wink. They
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Speaker 1: told Smoky that they could help him find his eggs
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Speaker 1: if he'd like them. To Smokey's face, which up until then,
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Speaker 1: if Maggie was being honest, had been a little grumpy,
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Speaker 1: broke into a bright smile. Do you really mean that,
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Speaker 1: he asked. Of course we do, they cried, and so
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Speaker 1: off they went, the four of them, Maggie and Thomas
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Speaker 1: and Marshmallow and Smoky. Smokey said there were three left,
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Speaker 1: and that they had to keep their ears out for
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Speaker 1: the sound. They wandered across the plains of Maggie's imagination,
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Speaker 1: trying to listen out, but no one could hear anything.
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Speaker 1: Then suddenly Marshmallow, who of course had the biggest ears
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Speaker 1: of them all, stamped his foot and told them to
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Speaker 1: listen out. They all cocked their ears. There it was
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Speaker 1: a soft, melodic sound, as though the wind itself was
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Speaker 1: humming a tune. Go on, Marshmallow, said, Maggie encouragingly follow
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Speaker 1: that sound. As they followed Marshmallow hopping over the grassy plain,
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Speaker 1: Thomas leant in to whisper in Maggie's ear, Eh, if
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Speaker 1: this is all happening in your imagination. Shouldn't you know
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Speaker 1: where the eggs are? As in? Haven't you made this
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Speaker 1: all up? Maggie thought about this for a moment before
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Speaker 1: shrugging and giving Thomas a quizzical look. I guess even
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Speaker 1: your own mind can be a mystery to you, she said.
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Speaker 1: Soon enough, Marshmallow paused beside a tree, hopped back, and
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Speaker 1: then gave the trunk of the tree a shove with
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Speaker 1: his two big feet. There was a rustling noise, and
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Speaker 1: then down from the tree fell a dragon's egg. Smokey
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Speaker 1: caught it as it fell. Nice job, guys, he said,
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Speaker 1: Thank you. Smokey put the egg into his satchel. It
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Speaker 1: turned out that Marshmallow, with his big, fluffy ears, had
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Speaker 1: the power to hear things that were inaudible to the
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Speaker 1: ears of me humans and mere dragons too. With a
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Speaker 1: twitch of his ears and a bit of concentration, he
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Speaker 1: could hear eggs very far away. No sooner had he
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Speaker 1: discovered the one up the tree than he had them.
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Speaker 1: Bouncing to a stream lined with spiky purple pine trees
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Speaker 1: and pointed into its twinkling currents. There it is, said Thomas,
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Speaker 1: pointing he slipped into the cool water, waded into the
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Speaker 1: middle of the stream and plucked up yet another dragon egg,
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Speaker 1: only one more loaft, said Smoky, putting the final leg
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Speaker 1: in his sash or for a final time. Marshmallow twitched
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Speaker 1: his ears, listened out, and then pointed with his little
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Speaker 1: pink nose. It's that way, cried Maggie. So off they went,
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Speaker 1: wandering along the edge of the stree and then upper
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Speaker 1: path that curved around the side of a large hill.
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Speaker 1: Marshmallow kept listening out and hearing that the egg was
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Speaker 1: on the other side of the hill, so they marched
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Speaker 1: around it until they found themselves back at where they'd started.
00:24:18
Speaker 1: They looked at each other in confusion for a few moments,
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Speaker 1: until Maggie broke out into a big laugh. Oh, silly ass.
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Speaker 1: The eggs knocked around the other side of the hill.
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Speaker 1: It's on top of the hill, And sure enough, when
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Speaker 1: they'd climbed up there, it was the final dragon egg,
00:24:43
Speaker 1: perched right on the crest of the hill, as if
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Speaker 1: just waiting for someone to find it. Smoky slipped the
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Speaker 1: egg into his satchel and then looked at Maggie, Thomas
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Speaker 1: and Marshmallow with a look of deep gratitud he thanked
00:25:02
Speaker 1: them each giving them a hug one by one, and
00:25:06
Speaker 1: once they'd said their goodbyes and waved Smoky off, the
00:25:10
Speaker 1: three friends sat together on the top of the hill.
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Speaker 1: Maggie gave a big yawn.
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Speaker 2: Wow, that was an eventful day traveling through my imagination,
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Speaker 2: she said, I'm getting pretty tired.
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Speaker 1: The others couldn't help but agree. Is it time to
00:25:36
Speaker 1: head back home, asked Thomas, Yes, said Maggie. But how
00:25:45
Speaker 1: now we're inside my imagination? How do we get out?
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Speaker 1: Out Of his pocket, Thomas drew a tiny little electronic
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Speaker 1: pad with a bright blue button on it. We just
00:25:59
Speaker 1: pressed this, he said. He handed the pad to Maggie.
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Speaker 1: She smiled at Thomas, and she smiled at Marshmallow. Thanks
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Speaker 1: for coming into my imagination with me, she said to
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Speaker 1: her friends, and then she pressed the button. Maggie, Thomas,
00:26:21
Speaker 1: and Marshmallow found themselves lying on their backs in the imaginarium,
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Speaker 1: in exactly the same place they'd been in what felt
00:26:31
Speaker 1: like hours and hours before. Through the fabric sides of
00:26:37
Speaker 1: the imaginarium, they could see that the light was fading.
00:26:42
Speaker 1: Evening must be approaching, but the three friends didn't get
00:26:47
Speaker 1: up just yet. They stayed lying down, staring up at
00:26:52
Speaker 1: the ceiling of the imaginarium, which no longer looked like
00:26:56
Speaker 1: an expanse of starry sky, but just the plain cloth canvas.
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Speaker 1: What an a basic gizmo, said Maggie with a yawn.
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Speaker 1: You really are a wiss at invention. Thomas gave a
00:27:16
Speaker 1: big stretch of his arms and legs. Well, there wouldn't
00:27:23
Speaker 1: be any gizmo without your imaginaria, Maggie, he said. And
00:27:30
Speaker 1: then they lay there thinking about how amazing it was
00:27:35
Speaker 1: that they had combined magic and technology in such a
00:27:40
Speaker 1: mind boggling way, and thinking how neither of them could
00:27:45
Speaker 1: wait to use the gizmo to enter the imaginarium again
00:27:50
Speaker 1: until soon enough the sounds of heavy breathing filled the tent,
00:27:57
Speaker 1: and Marshmallow knew that Maggie and Thomas were asleep very
00:28:04
Speaker 1: quietly so as not to disturb them, He slipped out
00:28:09
Speaker 1: of the tent and went to get Maggie's dad, who
00:28:13
Speaker 1: would be able to carry the two sleeping children off
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Speaker 1: to bed. Young