Fantasyland

Previously

…Perhaps, she thought, as the first faint rays of a new, uncertain reality began to pierce the fading light of her fantastical world, perhaps Fantasyland wasn’t something that could be packed away. Perhaps it was something that lived inside her, something that could, with a little bit of help, find a way to bloom, even in the shadow of a moving box. The thought was a fragile seed, but it was enough to make her stand a little taller, to face the encroaching reality with a flicker of resilience, the leaf a tiny, vibrant promise held safe against her heart.