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The Tooth Palace
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letskicksomeiceThe flight was fun for Jack.
Which probably meant it wasn't the most fun for Tony.
The Wind wasn't the most gentle way to fly, especially when someone like Jack was riding it - because naturally It assumed Jack could take whatever It could dish out.
Their flight got a little gentler as he came in on his final approach to the tooth palace, though. It had been evening back in Pennsylvania, but here it was early in the day and the first vestiges of morning light were dancing over the mountains. Most of the mountains nearby were a bit more arid but here in this valley, everything was lush and green.
And colorful. True to its name, there was a palace here, one that looked as if it had been ornately carved out of the mountains themselves, painted in hues of pink, green, purple, yellow, and turquoise. There were also countless lattices and towers lined with - or maybe even made entirely of - gold. Some parts of the palace looked like other parts, only inverted, as if the different parts of it had grown up from the stone or down from the rocky ceilings like incredibly ornate stalagmites and stalactites.
Everywhere, there were fairies, little blue things that looked just a little too human to be hummingbirds. They flitted in from every direction and spread out in every direction, the ones coming in bearing teeth in their tiny hands, and the ones flying away carrying little coins tied to their waists with string. Jack and Tony passed by columns full of complicated contraptions that looked almost like a glorified reward system. Mechanical devices extended out when fairies approached, opening up to reveal puzzle boxes - painted with the faces of children - that had half-finished shows of tiny teeth. The fairies put the new teeth they'd collected in the boxes and then they closed up and withdrew back into their columns again, tucked away safe from the world. In exchange for the teeth, coins rolled down out of slots for the fairies to carry away to give to another child.
"We're gonna have to go let the lady in charge know you're here so she doesn't freak out over a strange guy being here. She runs a tight ship."
Which probably meant it wasn't the most fun for Tony.
The Wind wasn't the most gentle way to fly, especially when someone like Jack was riding it - because naturally It assumed Jack could take whatever It could dish out.
Their flight got a little gentler as he came in on his final approach to the tooth palace, though. It had been evening back in Pennsylvania, but here it was early in the day and the first vestiges of morning light were dancing over the mountains. Most of the mountains nearby were a bit more arid but here in this valley, everything was lush and green.
And colorful. True to its name, there was a palace here, one that looked as if it had been ornately carved out of the mountains themselves, painted in hues of pink, green, purple, yellow, and turquoise. There were also countless lattices and towers lined with - or maybe even made entirely of - gold. Some parts of the palace looked like other parts, only inverted, as if the different parts of it had grown up from the stone or down from the rocky ceilings like incredibly ornate stalagmites and stalactites.
Everywhere, there were fairies, little blue things that looked just a little too human to be hummingbirds. They flitted in from every direction and spread out in every direction, the ones coming in bearing teeth in their tiny hands, and the ones flying away carrying little coins tied to their waists with string. Jack and Tony passed by columns full of complicated contraptions that looked almost like a glorified reward system. Mechanical devices extended out when fairies approached, opening up to reveal puzzle boxes - painted with the faces of children - that had half-finished shows of tiny teeth. The fairies put the new teeth they'd collected in the boxes and then they closed up and withdrew back into their columns again, tucked away safe from the world. In exchange for the teeth, coins rolled down out of slots for the fairies to carry away to give to another child.
"We're gonna have to go let the lady in charge know you're here so she doesn't freak out over a strange guy being here. She runs a tight ship."