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<v Speaker 1>The Tooth Fairy's Wrong Window Emma lost her tooth during dinner.

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<v Speaker 1>It vanished between the mashed potatoes and her glass of milk.

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<v Speaker 1>Dad checked the floor. Emma checked her napkin. Her little

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<v Speaker 1>brother checked his own mouth, though all his teeth were present.

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<v Speaker 1>At last they found it inside Emma's sleeve. That night,

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<v Speaker 1>Emma placed the tooth beneath her pillow and went to sleep.

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<v Speaker 1>At 12.14, something bumped against the window. At 12.15, it

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<v Speaker 1>bumped again. At 12.16, Emma heard a tiny voice say,

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<v Speaker 1>that is definitely glass. Emma opened one eye. A tiny

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<v Speaker 1>woman in a raincoat was trying to unfold a map

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<v Speaker 1>while hovering outside the glass. Emma opened the window. You

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<v Speaker 1>are not Noah, the visitor said. I'm Emma. The tooth

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<v Speaker 1>fairy checked the map. I have made a window error.

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<v Speaker 1>She carried three small pouches labeled teeth, Coins and uncertain.

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<v Speaker 1>The last pouch rattled. I collected a tooth from this house,

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<v Speaker 1>she said, but the pillow was empty when I returned

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<v Speaker 1>with the coin. She unfolded the map across Emma's blanket.

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<v Speaker 1>It showed the upstairs hallway, but the rooms had drifted

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<v Speaker 1>out of place. Emma's room was labeled, possibly Noah. The

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<v Speaker 1>bathroom was labeled, large blue bedroom, which was wrong in

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<v Speaker 1>several ways. This map updates itself, said the fairy. The

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<v Speaker 1>bathroom box moved into the chimney. Badly, Emma said. Emma's

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<v Speaker 1>brother Noah slept across the hall. He had lost a

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<v Speaker 1>tooth that morning and hidden it beneath a toy boat

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<v Speaker 1>instead of his pillow. He wanted to test whether fairies

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<v Speaker 1>could solve clues. Apparently not, said the tooth fairy. They

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<v Speaker 1>crept to Noah's room. The toy boat sat on the windowsill,

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<v Speaker 1>but the tooth was gone. A trail of paper arrows

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<v Speaker 1>crossed the carpet. Noah slept with one foot outside the blanket.

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<v Speaker 1>The fairy landed on the bedpost, slipped on a toy wheel,

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<v Speaker 1>and caught herself by grabbing the sail of the boat.

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<v Speaker 1>Why is there a boat beside his bed? He says

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<v Speaker 1>the carpet floods on Tuesdays. The fairy looked at the map.

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<v Speaker 1>That explains one note. The arrows led to a blocked castle.

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<v Speaker 1>Inside it was a note. Check the dragon. The stuffed

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<v Speaker 1>dragon sat beneath a chair, wearing Noah's winter hat. Emma

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<v Speaker 1>reached into its cloth mouth. Nothing. The fairy checked beneath

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<v Speaker 1>its wings and found a dried pea, a red crayon,

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<v Speaker 1>and one building block. The stuffed dragon held another note.

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<v Speaker 1>Too slow. On the back, Noah had drawn three circles

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<v Speaker 1>and a wavy line. A code, whispered the fairy. Or spaghetti.

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<v Speaker 1>The circles matched three round stickers on Noah's bookcase. Behind

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<v Speaker 1>the third sticker was another arrow pointing down. They crawled

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<v Speaker 1>beneath the bed. The fairy's pouch caught on a spring.

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<v Speaker 1>Coins spilled across the carpet, and Emma had to stop

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<v Speaker 1>two from rolling into a heating vent. The tooth was

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<v Speaker 1>not there. The tooth fairy folded her arms. Does he

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<v Speaker 1>want a coin or an investigation? Emma found the tooth

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<v Speaker 1>tucked into the dragon's felt ear. Both, she said. Noah stirred.

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<v Speaker 1>Emma and the fairy froze. Dragon knows, he mumbled. then

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<v Speaker 1>rolled over. Emma looked at the stuffed dragon again. Its

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<v Speaker 1>felt ears were uneven. One looked much heavier than the other.

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<v Speaker 1>The fairy placed a coin beneath the toy boat and

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<v Speaker 1>left a receipt reading, tooth found despite unhelpful directions. She

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<v Speaker 1>added a second line, map review pending. Is that for Noah?

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<v Speaker 1>Emma asked. That is for me. Before leaving, she checked

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<v Speaker 1>Emma's pillow. and exchanged the correct tooth for the correct coin.

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<v Speaker 1>Emma asked what happened to the collected teeth. Tonight, they

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<v Speaker 1>go into the teeth pouch. Tomorrow, someone with better labels

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<v Speaker 1>sorts them. It was not the grand fairy secret Emma

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<v Speaker 1>had imagined, but it sounded much more likely after meeting her.

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<v Speaker 1>In the morning, Noah was delighted by the receipt. Emma

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<v Speaker 1>kept the fairy secret, except for one part. Next time,

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<v Speaker 1>she told Noah, Use your pillow. Did she complain? In writing.

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<v Speaker 1>Noah read the receipt three times and placed it beneath

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<v Speaker 1>his toy boat. Emma noticed that the tooth fairy had

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<v Speaker 1>drawn a tiny corrected map on the back. The end.

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