At Ark's home, back at the middle of Tinsel, Ben is still taking his time trying to fix his time machine and he tries to travel through time by sending a wooden cup, a chicken or a glass of milk back to time immemorial or to the future. One time he was able to time travel an old wooden watch through the 19th century and saw it on a picture that sent back to him . The watch tower is called the Big Ben. Hmm…they even used my name to call that watch. Interesting!
Elise is about to leave home for school but she needed some coins to buy a pair of shoes she saw yesterday at a flea market. Dad, can I have some coins for a pair for shoes, since my birthday is coming up anyway!, Elise, proudly said to Ben not even saying her good morning greeting to him. Good morning to you too my angel!. Aha! A pair of shoes and what happened to the one we bought last month?, Ben added smiling and still fixing something in his time machine. The home built-in time machine is called Ark TM and he is planning to just call it Ark since their last name is that so the name of the machine would have a name recall and easy to memorize for the children. Ben!, if mom is here…., Elise said now contesting her want and she will not give up on what she had been dreaming to have. Since Amanda passed, Ben brought up Elise but he had been so kind to her that he forgot to discipline her. Since she loved Amanda she wanted to make her happy by giving Elise all she wanted even if it's already too much and senseless. Elise…!!!, Ben contested, but eventually gave in to his stubborn daughter's whims.
Elise kissed Ben and hugged him to thank him for the gift. But this goodbye hug and kiss seems different, since Elise kept hugging Ben and as if she doesn't want to let go of him. Baby, what's wrong?, Ben cried and kissed Elise on the forehead. Elise didn't tell her dad about a dream she had last night. That she was in a train going to somewhere and that Ben is running after her from United Kingdom., Union South, and other towns. She was somewhere that she got so scared with her magic notebook to write and store about the things she saw and heard while on the train. She saw a couple who wanted her and she didn't know what to do but ran away from them. Unfortunately, she was caught and even saw Manhattan, her best friend, who got lost from the forest a couple of weeks ago. Then, she saw her best friend, her body is sawn into bits. Her tummy is cut in squares and that she is yelling for help but nobody seemed to hear her. I can hear her yet I was somewhere that couldn't see what was happening inside a huge castle. I saw the odd couple and they were so nice to me. They fed me and gave me all the food I wanted. The woman even gave me three pair of new shoes which I loved, but at night when the light is out and the moon is the only light that shines in the dead of night, the man who was sweet to me earlier came up to me with his head so big and mouth open to eat me. His tongue savagely licked and took me inside his gross mouth, and that's it, I was gone, then I woke up panting. I was so scared that I couldn't even tell dad about it.
What is it, dear?, Ben asked me again but I just hugged him and went out of our shack to go to school.
Mr . & Mrs. Benette had been attracting attention with their children napping. So, they decide to flee Tinsel to go to Union South to have another place to plague for their lust on children's youthful and sweet flavor. But they need a child to have for their whole week of food, so when Manhattan is grown and fatter, they can have her like a lechon. But to make sure they are well fed in their travels to the U.S., they kid napped two other kids and since they are already fat, they immediately grilled them and put some parsley, onions, hot peppers, salt and cumin to make sure they would last on their way to the south. Manhattan is such a beautiful girl that Mrs. Benette just couldn't let her be wasted that easily, so she wanted to save her for the best time, winter season. Inside Benette's home, magic is useless. They have a force field that make all sorcerers magic disappear. But since the always hungry couple will travel some place else, their force field and magic will eventually lose it's power and Manhattan's escape plan might work while the couple is inside the train.
Elise boarded her donkey to school and sadly looked at her home like she will be leaving the place forever. Wake up and don't be silly, Elise. It's just a bad dream. Nothing like that can ever happen, we're already in the new ages, will there be….ahhhhhh….what the heck???, Elise said shouting when a gor (or like an oger), grabbed her by the leg and slid her to a sack, then dragged her to somewhere she didn't know. Help, help me, please!!!!, Elise kept shouting but no one seems to hear her. Now she is really afraid that her dream is about to come true. She wished that she just stayed home instead of buying that useless shoes. She never should have been a pain for her dad, now she realizes her mistakes, but it's already too late.