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new one made outta tin.

But I little knew how

cruel my enemy could be.

She thought of a new

way to kill my love for

the beautiful munchkin maiden,

and made my axe slip again,

so that it cut right

through my body,

splitting me in two halves.

Once more the tinsmith

came to my help

and made me a body of tin.

But, alas, I had now no heart,

so that I lost all my love

for the munchkin girl,

I suppose she is still

living with the old woman,

waiting for me to

come after her.

- That's sad.

- Yeah, but he's gonna get

a new heart from the wizard.

- You should get some sleep,

you've had none since our break.

- "I shall take the heart,"

returned the tin woodman.

"For brains do not

make one happy,

"and happiness is the

best thing in the world."

- Hey, don't go too far.

- I won't.

- Hey leif, I think

it's time we get moving.

Leif?

Hey leif?

- I got you.

- Where were you?

You scared me, don't

ever do that again.

- Really, I scared you?

Ah, that's great!

Dorothy met a lion in the woods,

he would roar to scare people,

even though he was a coward.

- A coward?

- Yeah, it's somebody

who's scared of everything,

so they scare other people.

I heard this strange noise,

so, I got a little scared

and went to go find you, but,

I must've went the wrong way.

And the noises got louder, so

i turned around and roared.

It was only a bird

though, an owl maybe?

I sure scared it,

, and you.

- That's not funny.

- Emri, I'm sorry, i--

- it's fine.

I'm just glad you're all right.

Come on.

Leif, let's go.

Leif, are you all right?

Stay right there!

- Hello?

Are you alive?

- Leif?

Leif are you all right?

What is that?

- Is...

Is it a tin woodman?

- That's just a story.

- Then what is it?

- Are you hurt?

- It looks like a man.

Nobody got here in time to

make sure he didn't rust up.

I'm sorry.

- It's, it's just a story leif,

it's not real.

I think that's the way out.

You really should

be more careful.

Can't be fooling around

and getting yourself hurt.

- We wouldn't have found

them if it hadn't happened.

- It was nothing.

It's like when you see

a face in the clouds,

or in the bark of a tree.

It just looked

like a man to you.

- You thought it looked

like a man too, didn't you?

- Yeah but, I bet I wanna

find some other people

just as much as you have,

we both just what we

thought, looked like a man.

If it was real it would've

had bones or something.

- Not a tin woodman.

- Leif, those don't exist!

- How do you know?

- Because I've never seen one!

Neither one of us

even heard of one

'till you started

reading that book.

You're just seeing

what you wanna see.

I found a map.

I think there's some

bigger cities west of here.

We could probably

find some supplies.

Do you mind helping

me read some of this?

I'm sorry about earlier.

Tchk, tchk,

tchk, tchk...

Whoa, ah!

Tchk, tchk, tchk...

Ah!

Dang witch!

Tchk, tchk, uh, ah!

Tchk, tchk, oh!

Grah!

The wicked witch has won!

Now I'll never get

the love of that girl

that I've longed for.

What will I ever do?

Oh, hi good sir.

Scarecrow I see.

Would you be so kind as to

hand me those metal legs,

so I can walk again,

and those metal arms

so I can be back at my best?

Ah, thank you, thank you.

If you could just

put the legs there

and the arms here.

I'm whole again!

Now we can go get me a heart

so that I can find love.

And for you, Mr.

scarecrow, some brains.

- I already have brains.

- We'll get you

even more brains!

What does that say?

- Min...

Minneola.

What's there?

- I don't know, but

i think we're here.

So if we keep going

west, we should find it.

- You should learn to read.

- Is it hard?

- It was a first,

but, it gets easier.

Here, try this.

- Maybe some other time.

Why don't you read a little

more, then go to bed?

- So, Dorothy, the scarecrow,

the tin woodman and the lion,

are going through this

dark forest to get to

the city of emeralds, and

they have to cross this river

on a raft, but, the raft

gets pulled down the river.

"This is bad." Said

the tin woodman,

"for if we cannot

get to the land,

"we shall be carried

into the country

"of the wicked

witch of the west,

"and she will enchant

us and make us slaves."

"And then I should get no

brains." Said the scarecrow.

"And I should get no courage."

Said the cowardly lion.

"And I should get no heart."

Said the tin woodman.

"And I should never get back

to Kansas." Said Dorothy.

What's your favorite color?

- I don't

think I have one.

- Me neither,

munchkins like blue a lot,

and everyone in the

emerald city likes green,

because the whole city

is completely green.

- Have they made

it to see the oz yet?

- Not yet.

What would you ask for,

if you got to meet the oz?

- That's tough.

I'm not sure.

What would you ask for?

- I'd ask to see my mom again.

And for him to make her okay.

- She taught you how

to read, didn't she?

- Yeah, every night.

She used to say that it was

something not worth losing,

because we had already

lost everything else.

Things were a lot different

when she was younger I guess.

She never talked about it.

She used to say that, when

i was older I would know.

I guess she was wrong

because I'm older

and I still don't know.

She didn't dry up

like everyone else.

She just wouldn't wake up.

Then I went to go find help.

But there was no

one, like always.

I couldn't find

my way back home.

It wasn't where

i thought it was.

- I know

what I'd ask for.

- What?

- Comfort.

- Comfort?

- Yeah.

I'd like to not have to

worry about surviving.

I mean we do now, but,

it'd be nice to be able to

not have to worry so much.

Then we could focus

on other things.

- Like what?

- It's like...

Nothing in the world matters

except this one thing,

and this one thing

is all that you need.

But, you can't see it,

you can't touch it.

But I know that it's there,

and that it exists.

But I haven't found it yet.

- Well, I'm sure

the oz can help.

- Yeah.

I'll think of a color then.

- Mine's green.

I just wish there

was more of it.

What is that?

- What does that say?

- Ter...

"Terroris".

What does that mean?

- I think terror

is like being scared.

- It's someone

who scares people.

A scarecrow.

- I guess so.

- So scarecrows are real.

And you can't say that we

aren't really seeing this.

This is really something!

Oh, a real scarecrow.

Was a scarecrow.

- He was burned.

- Why would anyone

start a fire near him,

knowing it could kill him?

- They may have

done it on purpose.

- Why?

- Just like that witch I guess.

Some people are just evil.

- What do you mean?

- My dad always

used to say that,

"evil is waiting at every turn,

"and evil is what will

stop you from surviving.

"You have to recognize the evil

"and find a way to overcome it."

- So, evil killed

this scarecrow.

- I'd say so.

- How much further

'till minneola?

- Uh, we should be

there by tomorrow.

Did you get enough to eat?

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