World as a Passing Blur:
(1925 A.D., Nornland, Scotland, Greater Germania)
John Darling sits resting his head against the window of the train. He stares out; the world exists only as a passing blur of landscape as his mind drifts back to the day that changed his life forever. He wishes he had stopped his sister from going; he wishes they had not listened to Peadar, but they were just children and Peadar was the boy in the window offering to set them free. The time they spent with Peadar from that first leap out of the nursery window to the night they returned home, flying through a sea of stars from a land of dreams, had been so filled with wonder and excitement. However, for all the joyful memories of adventure it had given them, it could never have been worth the toll it would have on their lives and their family after they returned home.
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The happiness and euphoria that was so present upon the night of their return soon turned to destructive anger and fear. That first night after they came back, their parents were just happy to have them home again and did not force the question of where they had gone or how they vanished from the nursery the night they left the world behind. Mr. Darling had even been willing to take in the Lost Boys, but it was not long before their parents wanted answers and it was quickly apparent the truth would serve only to bring damnation to all of them.
They knew their parents would never believe a truth so much stranger and more wonderful than any fiction. Wendy did her best to tell their parents a story she thought they could believe. At first, the story seemed to work. Wendy did her best to shield her siblings and the Lost Boys from most of the questioning, but the holes in their story became bigger and more numerous as their parentsâ questions continued to flow. In the absence of the truth, their parents settled on the idea that what really happened must have been so horrible that their children were too afraid to accept it. That was when he came and changed everything.