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BELONGING

Everybody maybe once had belonged to someone.

Bozhena Hlotko

It was warm, sunny day, there weren’t any clouds, the sky was blue and sun shined
brightly into the window of my room. At this time, someone knocked in my window, but I
didn’t see anyone. Suddenly, a little cloud flew straight into my bedroom and turned into a
cute, little boy. He said that he can’t find his friends – clouds, because they flew into the
Cloudyland and he lost them, so I said that I will help him. We started searching for his friends
because he can’t live without them. Little boy was crying and with every minute he was
becoming smaller and smaller. He told me that more he cries smaller he becomes. I understood
that we need to find his friends very fast but it’s not easy so I decided to make him smile. We
were telling jokes, singing funny songs, wriggling. He was laughing and becoming bigger and
bigger and in one moment, he caught me and we flew in Cloudyland.

Later, when we arrived to Cloudyland, King of Cloudyland was disappointed, he flew to

us and said that all clouds had disappeared. We were totally confused, we thought it will be
better to continue searching than to cry so we flew further into Rainyland.
There nobody had seen the clouds, we were upset but we didn’t give up. Anyway, we had an
awesome time together in Rainyland. We walked under the rain, then we visited a café where
we ordered cacao with Rainbow extract and thunder flavored spaghetti.
Then we flew Sunnyland. We were very tired after our long trip, we thought that we need to
rest and stopped in the Sunshine Hotel. We fell asleep and slept for a few days. We woke up
and felt so nice and fresh, when suddenly an old woman came in our apartment and told that
she is an enchantress. She said that she can help us, so were very glad to know this. We went
for a minute to change our clothes, and when we came back she was waiting for us. We went to
her house where she had a lot of poisons, books of spells, strange animals and many flying
brooms. Here she used a search spell, she was saying something like “Hocus – Pocus – Tru – la
la, find they everywhere they are”. It passed 5 hours after she told a spell. After that, she said
that this spell don’t work on clouds. So, we thank her and left.

Few days later…

We found an old, magical time map, but didn’t know what to do with it. We flew to an
enchantress to ask for a help. An old lady told that she worked with time maps, so she can help
us. She gave us a strange key and told that our hearts will find out what to do with it. In the
evening, it started to shine, and then from nowhere, a time portal opened. The key fell on the
map and showed Badland. We didn’t have time to think, so we grab map and a key and ran into
the portal.
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So here we are in Badland. We were really scared, so we realized how much do we need
friends in this kind of moments. We took each other’s hand and walked through the little,
narrow road. There was nothing around us, only darkness. By the time, road was becoming
wider and wider. Then large red ball appeared and with robot voice said: “Follow me”. We
didn’t want problems so we followed him. We walked very long when he brought us to a
Badland Queen, which said: “We have your friends, but we won’t give them to you, for
nothing, you should do what I will say if you want your friends back”. We asked her, why you
don’t want to give them to us, on what she answered...

“Long time ago, my country wasn’t called Badland, but Nicelandia, exactly as I was not a
Badland Queen, but Nicelandia Queen, and it wasn’t so dark and creepy here. I had lots of
friends and your friends – clouds, were my favorite servants. But later, the King of Cloudyland
called them, and they do not return. Now I’m revering to him. I stole them. I thought that they
will recognize me, but they don’t, because he made them forget about me. You also, don’t
remember me, but I remember everyone of you”. We told her that she have to become
Nicelandia Queen again, we can put everything back on it places as it was earlier, long time
ago. She was very happy about it, so we started our “Secret Operation”. At the very beginning,
she released clouds from captivity, but we did not recognize them. They were angry and heady,
clouds tried to bite us, but we had to oppose. We thought that if we will fight, we will lose our
time, so we decided to get back to the old Nicelandia times through the portal.
Few minutes later we arrived to the past, good Nicelandia. It was sunny here, everything was
bright and colorful. There were so many flowers, that after a little walk our heads were
fainting. Birds were flying high in the skies, so we saw only little colorful dots. Suddenly,
Nicelandia Queen, on a little white cloud flew to us from the skies. She greeted us and invited
us to her. We sat close to her and flew with some other young clouds. They gave us some food,
drinks and sweets. We ate and didn’t notice how fall asleep because the cloud, on which we
lied, was very soft. When we woke up, we were in totally other place, maybe in hotel or
somebody’s apartments, but it was really cool here. There many drinks and food here. Also, we
already had a plan in which we had to say Queen about the future which could happen and then
take her with us in nowadays so she will put everything back on its places. We ate some tasty
food, drank some milk, changed our clothes and went on the street. We asked some local
people about where the Queen lives. They helped us to find her so in no time we were standing
at the door to her palace. We knocked, after what she allowed us to come, so we sat and started
our story: “We are from the future, which is not as bright and colorful as your country now.
Your Nicelandia became Badland, and you became very angry, unfair and gloomy. The
darkness rules over everything, people here aren’t friendly at all, and the worst thing about it
that there aren’t any clouds in here, because all of them left to Cloudyland King”. She asked
about Cloundyland King, and that she doesn’t know him. We replied: “Of course you don’t,
because he will make his country in few days, so you need to do everything, to keep them on
your side because you belong to each other and you won’t live normally without each other”.
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We spoke about it day and night, night and day, and we can’t find the best decision than to visit
Badland with Nicelandia Queen. So we packed and opened the portal to the Badland. As
previous time we appeared on the narrow road, we were walking and walking but there weren’t
a red ball on our road, but later we saw something very far from us that was fiery horse with a
carriage. We sat down into the carriage and flew in the unknown direction, when the horse
stopped we walked out and we were in Badland Queen captivity…
Queens found their self in each other.
Magic happened around us, darkness disappeared, flowers blossomed and birds flew
everywhere here. All clouds appeared on the sky and became good, there were many rainbows.
My little friend boy turned back into a cloud and flew high to the sky. He said that from now
he will always help me and we will be always together. “You found my friends, thank you” –
he told. By the way, queens still talked and talked, bit by bit they merged into one, and only
one, good, magic and wonderful Nicelandia Queen left.
I was really glad, that everything was on its place. Clouds and flowers belong to sky, flowers to
the earth, and all of this belong to one thing – Nicelandia.
Queen said: “Finally, we are together and happiness rules all over Nicelandia”. She said to me
that I can visit her every time I want. She told her servants to bring me home, I was shocked
when all clouds came to me in a ship shape and my friend – boy was the captain. I arrived home,
said goodbye to cloud and went to bed.

This fairytale teaches us that everything and everybody belongs to their friends, country.
That we could do everything for what we love and care about.

The END