Page 239 - Nuts to You - The Nutcracker Retold

Alone and Lost
From the Other Side of the Clock
When Clara awoke, she didn’t know where she was at first. After all, she had been clobbered with a giant Nut in a different land and had expected to wake up there. Yet here she was, she realized – in her own bed, in her own home, in her own land.
No! she thought, No! No! No! If I’m in my own bed, I had to have dreamed it all! Franz is still stuck on the other side of the clock!
At that moment, Clara never felt so alone and lost. At that moment, Clara had never been so close to giving up. At that moment, Clara had never been so sure she had to find out.
And out of bed she jumped.
Clara ran out of her room, down the hall, and to the landing where the Clock stood.
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