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Princess Laura of Napolia Part 1: Katbut, Lynpea, Chemar and Camped (in South Africa) Part 2: Ramiro Sc., Marcos T. and Marcos R (in Argentina) A collaborative story between two countries

Part 1: A sad departure

Once in the land of Napolia there lived a priness called Princess Laura. She had a wonderful time in Napolia but one day she slipped and she broke both of her glass slippers. She had to leave because using the slippers was her way of flying. You  may think that isn't too bad but it is considered bad when it is in the land of Napolia. They had to fly around because they lived in the air, so one of the slaves had to escort her out. She hated to leave but she had to. 

As soon as she got into the real world, our earth home, she got very, very, very ill. She found a house to live in but it was still very hard not to be able to fly. She also missed being royal.

One day she was getting water out of the well and she didn't quite know how to use one. Not remembering that she could no longer fly she jumped into the well with her bucket. 

"Oh no!!!" she said remembering suddenly that she couldn't fly. How will I get out? She thought and thought but she didn't know what to do.

By that time it was night time and she could see the moon and stars twinkling in the sky. She remembered when sheand her father and a few slaves had built the moon. She eventually fell in a deep sleep. 

The next morning she woke up in her bed. “Wow!" she said to herself, " how did that happen? Wow, is this real? I don’t know how this happened.“ She honestly had no idea what had just happened.

Then she saw a man in the cottage in her house and she screamed "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh". Suddenly she realised that it was one of the slaves that used to bring her food. His name was Jeremiah.  “How did you get here?" she asked.  "Well, I thought you really needed help,"  he said

  Before she could answer, she fainted, and Jeremiah thought that she was dead.

Part 2: The magician

After some hours, Laura woke up.  Jeremiah was just beside her, sitting on Laura's chair. "Are you OK?" asked Jeremiah.  "I am sort of tired", Laura replied. "What happened?“ "You just got up from a faint."  Laura was surprised, and scared in some way.  She wondered who the stranger she had talked to was, and finally asked him.  She didn’t recognise him from Napolia. Jeremiah told Laura who he was and introduced himself. Trying to get into the topic, Jeremiah told Laura that he thought she needed help. "What kind of help?" asked Laura.  "I can help you to be able to fly again!"  Jeremiah answered. "Really?" Laura asked "How?" "You just need to follow me to Napolia again and when we arrive, I'll tell you my plan" said Jeremiah.

After he pronounced these words, he got Laura by her arm and flapped his slippers several times till he started lifting from the ground; and, making an effort not to let Laura go, he started flying into the dark sky of midnight that in that moment was full of bright stars that illuminated their way.  After one long hour of flying, they arrived at the earth atmosphere, which they crossed rapidly and entered Space. Laura was not used to being in space after being so many days away from her home planet, so she was suprised to see all the thousands and thousands of twinkling stars that surrounded several planets of different colours and sizes that at the same time surrounded the enormous yellow and red sun. 

"That’s where we are going", said Jeremiah pointing at a white twinkling star that was especially bright. When they were very near the star they jumped into a violet magic hole that was in the centre of it and after some seconds, they arrived to Napolia, Laura was very glad to finally return to her home. In Napolia noon was falling and the blue star that always gave light to Napolia started to lose brightness, they had a short time before night arrived.  "Now we must go to my place, there I will tell you my plan",  said Jeremiah while he was flying fast towards a small house made of sticks and hay that was floating in the middle of the green Napolian sky. 

When they arrived at Jeremiah´s place, he told Laura her plan: "I Know a wise magician that lives in the highest part of the sky. We can just  visit him before mid night, he may have a a magic pair of glass slippers that can never break. We must visit him and if we are lucky, he may give us a pair”.

After a long journey full of obstacles they finally arrived to the magician's place. He lived in an enormous castle surrounded by floating gardens full of the most extraordinary plants. When they entered the castle the magician received them without any surprise. "Good evening, Laura, Jeremiah, please sit down, maybe I can give you a pair of my magic glass slippers" he said to Laura's and Jeremiah's surprise.

You are surely asking yourself how can I know all your personal information? Well, let me answer your questions. I have been following Jeremiah all the time, I transformed myself into a star and I have always been watching over you, from the beginning I knew that.  Jeremiah was fond of Laura and that he would try to help her and drive her to me to ask for my help, so I didn't want to miss any detail" explained the magician. "But before giving you a new pair of slippers, I will ask you to pass a test, to see if you deserve to have one of my magic pair of slippers" he concluded. "Very well then, I shall have a try" answered Laura. 

Then Laura and Jeremiah went to the court. Tests were made to prove if Laura was able so they started doing the test. "Let’s start with the first one". So they started the test and she passed it so the Magician started thinking about the next test. He said "Let’s pass on to the second test." When the magician saw that she failed by just a small margin he started wondering if she would be able to pass the third test. Unfortunately,  the third test included some parts of the world like people and other things so she easily passed the third test. 

"Congratulations" said the Magician. THE END