Lost and Found

“Sometimes you have to wait for dreams to come true you know, pickle?” Caroline suggested once we were back on the train, heading home. I was sitting on her lap, with Grace beside her fast asleep, with her head on my lap. Chloe was sitting opposite us on Charles, also asleep, and he had decided to rest his eyes too. It had been a long day for everyone else, and a crushing one for me. “I know you expected something from that Dream Stone of yours…some magic or something, maybe? But magical things really are happening…like getting you back from that dark place you have been in for so long? That is the sort of magic I like…and now we can do something about getting you to grow a bit…and doing a bit better at school? And enjoying your life? Magic is making two good friends…and magic is finally bonding with your sisters…they love you so much, Olivia?”