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STARFELL: Willow Moss and the Lost Day

was a bit too afraid to say no, but also because it sounded like a pretty serious problem, so shouldn’t she try to help . . . if she could? But mainly she’d said yes because hadn’t she always secretly wished for something like this? Even that morning while she was hanging up her sisters’ underwear on the line she had wished that she could go somewhere exciting just once, somewhere beyond the Mosses’ cottage walls, and do something that didn’t involve finding Jeremiah Crotchett’s teeth. But, as Granny Flossy always said, wishes are dangerous things, especially when they come true. Which was why, now, she was a bit worried that this was a bit more adventure than she’d bargained for . . . Willow looked at her belongings and frowned. She probably needed more than just an extra pair of socks? It took her another five minutes to gather everything she might need, which coincidentally amounted to everything she owned:

Her second dress, pond green – previously belonging to Juniper and taken up rather haphazardly by her Granny Flossy, so that it bubbled around her feet like a balloon

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