Warogi: mama why is the sky cracking

Mama: that is not crack little star that is door

Warogi: door for who

Mama: for you

[ the sky opens like big mouth and drops a silver egg that lands in warogi's tiny hands ]

Warogi: egg is cold like fish

Mama: keep it close keep it warm the egg is also your ticket

Warogi: ticket to where

Mama: to the place where you will grow bigger than big

[ night comes the egg glows green warogi hugs it inside his blanket ]

Warogi: hello egg i am warogi i have six summers i can run fast but not faster than fear

Egg: thump thump

Warogi: you talk with heart okay i talk back

[ the egg cracks a little light leaks out and draws a smile on warogi's face ]

Warogi: if you hatch will you be my friend

Egg: thump thump louder

Warogi: promise you wont leave like papa did

Egg: flash of blue means promise

[ warogi sleeps while the egg keeps thumping ]

NEXT MORNING

Big elder: kid bring the egg to the stone hill we must ask the old wind what it wants

Warogi: i want to keep it it likes me

Big elder: the egg chose you but the law says we test it

Warogi: what is test

Big elder: a game that can bite

[ every villager walks behind warogi like a long scarf ]

Stone hill is tall and talks with echo

Stone hill: place the egg on my head

Warogi: will it hurt

Stone hill: only if you fail

[ warogi climbs the hill his knees shake the egg glows brighter each step ]

Stone hill: now say your true name

Warogi: my name is warogi

Stone hill: that is skin name give me the bone name

Warogi: i do not know another name

Stone hill: then i will squeeze the egg until it breaks

[ the hill grows hands of rock ]

Warogi: stop stop i will find the bone name

[ inside his head a small door opens a voice says ]

Voice: your bone name is the word that ends all wars

Warogi: i do not know that word

Voice: then make it up

Warogi: my bone name is guchi and guchi means no more fight

Stone hill: the hill is pleased step down

[ the egg hatches a tiny star with legs jumps out and lands on warogi's shoulder ]

Star pet: peep peep

Warogi: i will call you blink because you blink like light switch

Blink: peep peep means yes

Big elder: the star is your mana engine it eats your fear and grows

Warogi: i have lots of fear let us share

[ the villagers cheer but the sky door opens again and drops a black letter ]

Letter: dear warogi you are invited to the pain school if you say no we will eat your planet

Warogi: what is pain school

Big elder: place where kids learn to hurt so they can guard the stars

Warogi: i do not want to hurt

Letter: then planet go gulp

[ warogi looks at mama ]

Warogi: i will go so everyone can keep singing

Mama: remember the word guchi

Warogi: i will tape it inside my heart

[ blink jumps into warogi's pocket they walk toward the sky door ]

Sky door: last chance to be small

Warogi: i choose grow

[ step step the village vanishes warogi enters a tunnel of mirrors every mirror shows a stronger warogi ]

Mirror one: i am warogi who can lift a house

Mirror two: i am warogi who can eat a sun

Mirror three: i am warogi who can forget crying

Warogi: i do not want to forget crying

Mirror three: too bad you must throw away soft to gain hard

[ warogi covers his eyes and runs until he falls into a white room ]

White room teacher: welcome i am master slice i will cut your weakness

Warogi: please cut gently

Master slice: gentle is for grass not for warriors

[ master slice pulls a sword made of sound ]

Master slice: first lesson stand still while fear bites

[ the sword screams loud warogi's ears bleed blink hides deeper in pocket ]

Warogi: guchi guchi no more fight

Master slice: cute word but sound sword does not listen

[ the sword slashes warogi's left arm pain is hot like soup ]

Warogi: it hurts

Master slice: pain is teacher ask it what it wants

Warogi: pain what do you want

Pain: i want you to remember me

Warogi: i will remember but i will not obey

[ the wound glows green and closes fast ]

Master slice: impossible healing without spell

Warogi: blink ate the pain and spat out health

[ master slice smiles for first time ]

Master slice: maybe you can pass the three hells

HELL ONE THE FOREST OF COPY

Master slice: enter this forest every tree is a copy of you with one extra power you must beat yourself one thousand times

[ warogi walks in the forest meets tree warogi with fire eyes ]

Tree warogi: i can burn thoughts

Warogi: i can burn fear let us trade

[ they clash warogi wins by hugging the tree until fire becomes warm soup ]

Tree warogi: you win by love that is cheat

Warogi: love is not cheat love is rule

[ after one thousand fights warogi has one thousand new powers but he feels heavy ]

Warogi: blink i do not want to be suitcase of tricks i want to be me

Blink: peep peep drop the weight

[ warogi lets go of all copied powers they turn into butterflies and make the forest rainbow ]

HELL TWO THE LAKE OF REGRET

Master slice: now face every regret you ever had

[ lake shows mama crying because warogi left ]

Lake mama: you broke my heart

Warogi: i am sorry i will fix

[ warogi jumps into the lake he swims down until he finds a broken heart shaped like home he hugs it the heart beats again ]

Lake mama: thank you child go ahead

HELL THREE THE TOWER OF TOMORROW

Master slice: last test climb the tower that shows your future at the top you must defeat the final boss who is you with no kindness

[ warogi climbs days and nights each step ages him one day he becomes teen he becomes adult he becomes old but blink stays tiny ]

Warogi: blink why you no grow

Blink: i grow by staying small the smaller i am the bigger my inside

[ at the top stands dark warogi with black armor and cold eyes ]

Dark warogi: i killed every star to become strongest

Warogi: i will not fight you i will invite you for soup

Dark warogi: soup is for weak

Warogi: then let us be weak together

[ warogi hugs his dark self the armor cracks light leaks the dark melts into a kid like the first day ]

Dark warogi: thank you for stopping me

Warogi: we are same we stop together

[ the tower crumbles warogi returns to age six master slice bows ]

Master slice: you passed without killing you are first

Warogi: can i go home now

Master slice: one last thing the sky door is broken someone must replace it with their heart

[ warogi understands he must become the new door ]

Warogi: if i become door i can protect every world

Blink: peep peep means we accept

[ warogi stands in space he grows huge his arms become door frames his eyes become knobs his heart becomes hallway ]

Warogi: from now on anyone who is lost can walk through me and find home

[ planets line up to thank him the first planet is his home ]

Mama: warogi you are bigger than sky but still my little star

Warogi: mama i made the word guchi real

Mama: come visit when door is not busy

Warogi: i will open a small cat door just for you

[ blink jumps out and becomes a moon that circles warogi forever ]

Years pass stories pass every kid who looks at night sky sees the door shaped constellation and hears a soft voice ]

Voice: if you are afraid walk through me my name is warogi and i used to be small like you

Warogi: blink i feel my heart grow big like balloon

Blink: peep peep that means door power is munching you

Warogi: i dont wanna be munch

Blink: too late we both snack now

[ the space around warogi bends like soft candy every star looks at him like he is new toy ]

Warogi: hello stars i am still six please be nice

Stars: we nice but we also test

[ a star shaped like lion walks forward it has sword tail ]

Star lion: kid door fight me or i bite your memory

Warogi: i dont want memory bite

Star lion: then learn first rule of door

[ star lion swings tail sword warogi ducks the sword cuts a planet in half the planet becomes two smaller planets that giggle ]

Warogi: why giggle

Star lion: because pain is joke when you are door

[ warogi touches the cut planets with his finger the cut heals into heart shape ]

Warogi: joke over now we friends

Star lion: you pass first test but nine more wait

[ star lion walks away it leaves foot prints that burn into silver road ]

Warogi: blink lets follow silver road

Blink: peep peep road tastes like cookie

[ they walk the road road sings lalala under their feet ]

Road: i am the path of maybe i show what could be

Warogi: can you show me mama

Road: only if you pay price

Warogi: what price

Road: one drop of future tear

[ warogi cries a single tear that shines like diamond the tear falls on road a window opens shows mama sleeping with warogi's baby photo ]

Warogi: mama looks small

Road: every mom looks small when kid grows

[ window closes road becomes stairs going up into dark mouth ]

Warogi: stairs look like teeth

Blink: peep peep teeth hungry

[ warogi climbs each step moans like tired bell ]

Step one: remember your first scare

Warogi: i was three big dog barked i peed pants

Step one: good keep remembering

Step two: remember your first lie

Warogi: i told mama cookie ate itself

Step two: good lies feed door

Step three: remember your first wish

Warogi: i wished papa came back

Step three: wish is key keep it

[ after thousand steps warogi reaches a mouth gate the lips are made of night lip gloss ]

Mouth gate: kid door feed me a story

Warogi: what kind story

Mouth gate: story that never happened but should

Warogi: okay once there was boy who never left home he grew old with mama and they planted flowers that sang lullabies the end

Mouth gate: story tasty but too sweet give bitter part

Warogi: the flowers sang but also cried because they knew they would outlive the boy and mama

Mouth gate: perfect now enter

[ warogi walks through mouth gate he enters city made of broken clocks ]

Clock citizen: welcome to overtime city where every second is late

Warogi: why late

Clock citizen: because future keeps changing its mind

[ a giant clock tower falls and breaks into tiny hourglasses each hourglass contains a mini warogi doing different things ]

Hourglass warogi one: i am warogi who never opened door i stayed small

Hourglass warogi two: i am warogi who became evil king i ruled with iron cookie

Hourglass warogi three: i am warogi who forgot own name i became wind

Hourglass warogi four: i am warogi who saved everyone but cried forever

[ warogi picks up hourglass number four he hugs it ]

Warogi: i choose this one he saves and cries that is okay

Hourglass four: thank you for choosing soft pain

[ all other hourglasses shatter they turn into black rain that smells like burnt sugar ]

Clock citizen: you picked weakest self city angry now

[ buildings turn into metal monsters monsters scream time puns ]

Monster one: you gonna get second handed

Monster two: we clock you out

Monster three: time to die late

[ warogi opens his chest like door he stores the crying hourglass inside his heart light leaks out sewing the monsters mouths shut ]

Warogi: no more puns lets be quiet

[ city freezes into silent photograph warogi walks out ]

Beyond city is ocean of upside down water the sky is below the sea is above

Upside down whale: kid door swim up to me

Warogi: but i cant swim upside

Upside down whale: then turn your self around

[ warogi flips his body he now stands on water sky the real sky is under his feet stars float like fish ]

Upside down whale: catch a star fish i will tell you secret

[ warogi cups hands he catches tiny star fish it wiggles ]

Star fish: i am your lost giggle when dog barked you forgot me

Warogi: i miss you little laugh

Star fish: put me back in your belly

[ warogi swallows star fish he giggles for first time since leaving home giggle echo turns into boat ]

Boat made of giggle: hop in i sail on memory

[ warogi and blink sail the upside ocean they pass island made of his baby teeth teeth shine like lanterns ]

Island teeth: remember us we held your words

Warogi: thank you tiny towers

[ they pass waterfall that flows upward waterfall made of all his yawns ]

Waterfall yawn: we tired from waiting come sleep

[ warogi yawns huge the boat grows bed shaped sail ]

Bed sail: nap time hero

[ warogi sleeps he dreams he is back in village but village is empty every house is a door he opens each door finds a different version of himself ]

Door one: warogi with spider legs he weaves sorry webs

Door two: warogi with glass heart he sees through feelings

Door three: warogi with clock eyes he cries hours

Door four: warogi with paper skin he folds into airplane and flies away

[ warogi hugs each version they melt into colored sand sand forms new path ]

Dream sand path: follow to wake but leave something behind

Warogi: i leave my fear of being small

[ he wakes up the boat has reached tower that pierces both skies the tower is made of every door he will ever open ]

Tower base sign: welcome to maybe tower each floor is a maybe you must pick yes or no

Floor one maybe: maybe you forget mama

Warogi: no

Floor one: climb

Floor two maybe: maybe you become monster

Warogi: maybe but i will be kind monster yes

Floor two: climb

Floor three maybe: maybe you must close door forever

Warogi: maybe but i will open window yes

Floor three: climb

[ after nine hundred maybe floors warogi reaches roof the roof is empty only mirror stands ]

Mirror: look at final warogi

[ reflection shows adult warogi tall like galaxy eyes full of door ways mouth full of stars skin made of night roads ]

Adult mirror warogi: i am what you become if you keep saying yes

Kid warogi: are you happy

Adult mirror warogi: i protect all but i am lonely will you still become me

Kid warogi: i will become you but i bring blink and mama and every giggle i collect

[ mirror smiles it cracks adult image shatters pieces fly into sky they form new constellation shaped like open door ]

Tower: tower pleased you graduate here key to next test

[ tower hands warogi tiny key made of frozen tear key opens small hatch in floor hatch leads down into dark mouth again ]

Warogi: down is up now okay lets go

[ they slide down tongue slide landing in arena made of echo ]

Echo crowd: fight fight fight

Center stands kid shaped void the void has warogi's face but no light

Void warogi: i am the part you refuse i grow bigger when you say no to pain

Warogi: i accept you come here

[ void warogi jumps they hug the void melts into black paint warogi uses finger writes on floor ]

Written words: pain stays but pain becomes art

[ echo crowd cheers then turns into flock of door shaped birds birds fly away revealing silver desert ]

Desert sign: last mile walk alone

Blink: peep peep i cant follow but i wait here

Warogi: okay friend keep my giggle safe

[ warogi walks desert sand sings his footsteps each step sounds like mama heartbeat ]

After million steps he meets old man sitting on rocking chair the old man is future warogi wrinkled smile

Old man warogi: hello small me

Kid warogi: hello big me

Old man warogi: i bring gift

[ gift is tiny seed shaped like house ]

Old man warogi: plant this when you miss home it grows into door that leads to yesterday for five minutes each day you can visit but you must leave again

Kid warogi: five minutes is enough thank you

[ kid warogi hugs old man old man turns into wind wind pushes kid forward ]

End of desert is giant heart the heart is cracked light leaks

Heart: i am the core of all doors i am breaking fix me

Warogi: how

Heart: stitch crack with every name you love

[ warogi begins to name names each name becomes thread ]

Warogi: mama blink papa star lion road mouth gate hourglass four upside down whale giggle boat island teeth waterfall yawn every warogi i met

[ heart stitches glow but one crack remains ]

Heart: last name is yourself say it with kindness

Warogi: i love warogi the kid who is scared but still walks

[ heart closes it beats once the beat echoes across every world the beat sounds like door closing and opening at same time ]

Heart: you fixed me you fixed you welcome to final shape

[ heart turns into normal size door the door is plain wood with small carving of six year old hand print ]

Door: open me to go back but you will carry every world inside your chest

Warogi: i am small but my inside is big okay lets go

[ warogi opens door bright light washes everything ]

He wakes up standing on silver road again blink is on his shoulder star lion waits

Star lion: you finished second school now you are door knight level one

Warogi: i still feel six

Star lion: good because age is armor against crazy

[ road ahead splits into rainbow bridge and dark tunnel ]

Star lion: pick next path rainbow is glory tunnel is secret third school

Warogi: i pick tunnel secrets help me guard better

[ they enter tunnel the tunnel walls are covered with drawings of every kid who ever became a door each drawing waves hello ]

Drawing kids: welcome new brother

Warogi: hi siblings i will try my best

[ tunnel ends at sign that reads chapter three coming soon but first sleep because even doors need nap ]

Warogi: blink lets sleep on the road stars will watch

Blink: peep peep lullaby time

[ they curl up on silver road the road softens into blanket the stars above form smiling face warogi closes eyes ]

Warogi: mama i am still walking but i carry home in my chest beat

[ his heart glows gently showing door shape through shirt ]

Stars sing in kid language

Stars: sleep little door sleep big heart tomorrow we open new crack you will greet

[ light fades to soft dark chapter two ends but heart keeps thumping like promise ]

Warogi: blink i wake up but my dream keeps playing on my face like sticker

Blink: peep peep that means school bell inside you already ring

Warogi: i dont hear bell i hear knock knock who is it

Voice behind road: it is me your next teacher open your back i walk in

[ warogi opens his spine like door a tall woman made of silver keys steps out her hair jingles like wind chime ]

Key lady: i am master locksmith i teach you to lock pain and unlock power

Warogi: can i also lock lonely

Key lady: lonely is master lock it locks back but we try

[ she snaps fingers the silver road turns into giant classroom without walls desks float like boats each desk has padlock heart ]

Key lady: lesson one pick the lock of your first no

[ warogi walks to desk number one padlock shows baby warogi crying because he could not reach moon ]

Warogi: i wanted to touch silver but moon said too far

Key lady: now say yes to same moment change memory

[ warogi touches lock it opens baby warogi in memory suddenly moon bends down and pats his head baby laughs ]

Warogi: i feel warm butter inside

Key lady: good one lock opened nine hundred ninety nine left

[ time bends they spend thousand counts opening locks each lock is a small no turned yes warogi sees himself sharing cookie with bully reading story to sick star planting tree in desert every yes makes his chest glow brighter ]

After last lock key lady claps once floating desks form circle become giant lock shaped like planet

Key lady: final lock is big it holds your maybe death you must open without key because death has no key you talk it open

[ warogi hugs planet lock he whispers ]

Warogi: dear maybe death i am not ready today i still carry mama smile and blink peep please wait death is good friend but let us play longer i will come when every door i guard learns to close gentle

[ planet lock melts into sleepy puppy it yawns and curls around warogi like scarf ]

Key lady: class one pass you earn silver key tattoo on soul use it only when you must lock your own heart to save others

[ tattoo glows on his chest tiny key shape ]

Key lady: now we walk to second campus the hall of upside keys where locks eat keys and keys become new doors

[ she opens her own chest pulls out staircase made of jingling keys they climb each step sounds like thank you ]

Top of stairs is dark museum every exhibit is broken door floating in glass box

Key lady: these are doors that failed they forgot their names you must remember them

Box one shows door with spider cracks name tag reads courage lost in rain

Warogi: hello courage i name you again you are brave umbrella i remember you

[ door glows mends and vanishes it leaves behind small umbrella badge that sticks to warogi arm ]

Box two shows door burned to ash tag reads love traded for power

Warogi: hello love i trade back my power for you please return

[ ash rebuilds into pink wooden door it opens releases butterfly made of hearts butterfly lands on warogi cheek gives kiss ]

After hundred names museum becomes bright garden every fixed door turns into flower until warogi stands in field under glass dome

Key lady: naming is power you now carry hundred names use them like shield

[ garden folds into small seed key lady hands seed to warogi ]

Key lady: plant this inside your heart when you forget who you are the seed will bloom into mirror and shout your name loud

[ warogi eats seed it tastes like home cooking ]

Key lady: final lesson the backward lock you must lock something you love to learn release

Warogi: i dont wanna lock love

Key lady: you lock it to keep it safe from poison cloud sometimes love needs cage for healing

[ warogi cries but he locks blink inside glowing cage made of yes and no bars ]

Blink: peep peep i understand i wait

Warogi: i will return i promise on my key

[ cage shrinks becomes pendant hanging on warogi neck warm with blink heartbeat ]

Key lady: graduation gift you keep caged friend to remember every key needs stillness now i send you to third campus the maze of echo doors you walk alone

[ she pushes warogi gently he falls into dark that smells like morning breath ]

He lands in maze walls are mirrors each mirror shows door that repeats everything warogi says

Warogi: hello

Echo door: hello but mean

Warogi: i am scared

Echo door: i am scared but laughs

[ warogi touches mirror it shatters into thousand tiny warogi clones each clone speaks different language some shout some whisper some sing ]

Clone choir: choose one voice to guide you the rest will try to eat your steps

Warogi: i choose the whisper that says gentle is strong

[ other clones melt into black water whisper clone grows into full size warogi made of soft light this guide wears smile like mama ]

Guide whisper: follow my feet i step on sound not on floor

[ they walk on voices each step lands on word floating in air words like trust hope cookie lullaby ]

Halfway maze becomes courtroom giant judge made of echo sits on throne of screams

Echo judge: kid door you stand accused of carrying too many hearts you will explode state your defense

Warogi: i carry hearts but hearts carry me back we share weight like team

Echo judge: prove you can hold infinite without breaking

[ judge throws iron ball labeled infinite pain warogi opens chest door the ball enters and becomes small marble he spits marble out it bounces and draws smile on judge face ]

Echo judge: court find you guilty of love sentence is to walk maze forever but you may take breaks for cookies

[ gavel bang maze walls turn into cookie sheets hot and sweet warogi laughs he takes one bite each bite becomes new path ]

After cookie miles he reaches center of maze there stands single door made of silence no echo comes from it

Guide whisper: this is the mute door only open if you accept quiet inside loud world

Warogi: quiet scares me but i open

[ inside door is white room with single chair chair faces window window shows blink still inside cage sleeping peacefully ]

Warogi: i will sit and feel quiet so blink can hear my heart password

[ he sits quiet wraps him like heavy blanket he hears own heart it knocks in morse code message spells i miss you i love you i am coming ]

The quiet room records the knock pattern it etches same code on warogi bones now his skeleton beats message forever

Room spits him back into maze but maze is now empty all echoes gone only his footfalls remain

He walks straight line each step plants small heart shaped key on ground keys glow making runway lights

End of maze is giant keyhole shaped hole warogi jumps through hole lands inside library where every book is a living teacher

Book one: i teach fire tongue open me and burn your lies

Book two: i teach ice touch read me and freeze your hate

Book three: i teach wind ears flip pages and hear planets gossip

Book four: i teach stone will close me and never bend

Warogi: i want all teachers but i only have two hands

[ library master appears as floating quill pen big as tree ]

Quill master: you may borrow one power at a time but each time you must leave a memory as deposit

Warogi: i give memory of first cookie mama baked i get fire tongue

[ he reads book one his tongue glows orange he speaks and small flame writes truth in air ]

Warogi: test i say i am afraid and fire writes afraid in pretty letters that do not burn

He returns book memory comes back cookie smell fills room he cries happy

He borrows ice touch freezes his angry shadow into snow statue then returns book

He borrows wind ears hears blink dreaming of peep peep song smiles wide

He borrows stone will stands still while library shakes books fall around him he does not move

Quill master: you pass borrowing test now write your own book you are door so your book must be hinge that connects worlds

[ warogi given blank book cover is mirror he opens mirror page it shows empty road he draws mama house blink ball star lion cookie and key lady he draws himself small between them ]

The drawing jumps off page becomes real tiny world floating above book warogi can peek inside see them moving living loving

Quill master: your book is portal you may enter any time but remember every visit costs one tomorrow

Warogi: i understand i will visit only when today breaks

[ he closes book it shrinks becomes badge reading author of maybe ]

Quill master: final campus awaits the upside down castle where princes of maybe live you must duel them and win the crown of choice

[ library floor flips warogi falls upward into sky that is ground castle hangs above him like chandelier made of moon stone ]

Castle gate guards are twin kids one made of yes one made of no they speak same time

Yes guard: to enter say yes to everything forever

No guard: to enter say no to everything always

Both: pick quick or we pick for you

Warogi: i say maybe

Both: maybe not option

Warogi: i create new option i say yes to no and no to yes

[ guards heads spin like coins land on edge they split open gate ]

Inside castle hallway is maze of upside chandeliers each light is upside star that casts shadow upward

Prince one appears riding chariot pulled by wild questions chariot wheels are giant words why and what if

Prince maybe one: fight me with answers i strike with confusion shield yourself with clarity

[ he throws why spear warogi catches it turns spear into because rope ties prince wrists ]

Prince maybe one: defeated you take my doubt dice you may roll once to change any rule

[ warogi pockets dice ]

Prince two appears walking on stilts made of howling stilts scream every step

Prince maybe two: i make you question your steps defeat me by dancing without asking where

[ warogi dances baby steps he counts one two three no questions asked prince stilts crack he falls into smile ]

Prince maybe two: take my silence shoes wear them to walk quiet through storms

[ warogi puts shoes on his feet glow blue ]

Prince three is girl wrapped in ribbon of tomorrow she holds hourglass that flips backward

Prince maybe three: beat me in race to finish line that moves away when you run toward

Warogi: i walk backward then finish line comes to me

[ he walks backward line touches him first prince claps hourglass breaks time hiccups ]

Prince maybe three: take my backward watch turn back one minute per day use wise

[ warogi ties watch on wrist ]

Final prince is shadow kid with no face only door on chest door opens to swirling maybe

Final prince: i am crown of choice you must choose to become door forever or stay kid and lose door power world breaks without door

Warogi: i choose third choice i become door but keep kid heart i weld them together

[ he opens his chest door pulls out kid heart shaped like toy boat he nails boat to inside of shadow prince door the door becomes colorful the shadow gains warogi face smiling ]

Final prince: new crown born crown of kid door you win but crown heavy

[ crown appears above warogi head it is simple wood circle with blinking star on front star is blink shape ]

Castle shakes it folds into crown now warogi stands back on silver road blink cage pendant opens blink jumps out bigger brighter now has tiny crown too

Blink: peep peep we graduated

Warogi: yes but school never end we are walking school now

[ key lady reappears she bows ]

Key lady: you passed third school you hold thousand keys one million names hundred choices and crown of maybe use them to guard every door that has no home

[ she hands him giant key ring that jingles like galaxy lullaby ]

Key lady: next road leads to war of cracks where broken doors fight to stay broken you must choose which to heal and which to let go that lesson is chapter four but today we rest

[ she vanishes leaving rocking chair that rocks by itself warogi sits blink on lap they watch star road stretch forward forever ]

Warogi: blink i am still six but my inside is library castle maze quiet room and cookie field i feel full

Blink: peep peep full tummy means long walk tomorrow

[ they close eyes the crown dims but star keeps blinking like lighthouse for every lost kid in every world ]

Behind them footprints glow key shaped guiding next traveler chapter three ends but heartbeat writes next page in real time