Dreams of a Kitten by Edward Drobinski - HTML preview

Dreams of a Kitten

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power. Elphaba flees his chambers, while Glinda has been told by

Morrible to bring her back. They are hounded by the flying

monkeys. Glinda begs her to apologize and go back, but Elphaba

refuses and declares that she must do what is right. Elphaba

commandeers a balloon and as it rises Glinda is left behind as

the Wizard’s forces of evil close in on her after breaking down

a door. Elphaba tells Glinda to “Jump,” and she does, almost

making it into the balloon’s basket, and Elphaba pulls her in

the rest of the way. But, the balloon encounters knife-like

obstacles at the roof, is punctured, and falls in flames; it’s

occupants okay.

In an apparent change of mind, an empathetic Glinda declines to

leave with Elphaba, but gives her a long black cloth for an

extended cape, reminiscent of when they first made friends and

Glinda offered Elphaba her extensive wardrobe, and the two

friends bid farewell before Elphaba enchants a broom, as she

learned by accidentally enchanting the monkey servants. Elphaba

on the broom crash toward the earth below, until they stabilize

upon seeing Munchkin Boq. When he disappears the fall resumes,

until near ground, when Elphaba learns to control the swift

moving broom, which she also accidentally turns into a Christmas

tree with tiny flickering lights of all colors, a blue-white one

on top. She has no regrets. Chased ineffectively by the Wizard’s