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Account of the Darlings

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The following is an account from various witnesses of the events regarding the disappearance of the children of Mr. and Mrs. Darling of townhouse number 14 when they went missing that April night and returned later without the knowledge of their parents.

MRS. DARLING: Well, Mr. Darling and I had tucked the children in to bed, you see, and gone to the party down at George’s Bank.
THE BED SHEETS: I hugged the child tight to me, nice and warm; made sure her brothers were the same in their beds too.
NANA, THE DOG NURSE: I slept, much to muh humiliation outside on the chain. Mr. Darling 'ad gotten quite cross at me previously in the evening. Ah never saw the boy comin'.
THE WINDOW: My back was turned so I didn’t see much, to be honest. I heard the rascal though, whispering to his fairy while the children slept.
THE TOY CHEST: Oh yes, he lifted my lid, looking for that shadow of his. I was quite rattled by it all; he made a real mess of my contents and the room.
THE LOCKED DRAWER: I must say, my jaw hurt quite a bit, holding that thing locked in there tight. But that Peter Pan got his shadow out, toppled across the room and woke the child from her bed.
WENDY DARLING: Why, yes I was completely startled, but I knew he would be back, you see. It's terribly aweful manners to leave one's shadow at another’s house you know.
MICHAEL’S TEDDY: The young girl rambled on and on and they spoke quite a while I suppose. My boy was woken when the Pan fellow jumped across his bed. His brother rose too. I heard the children excitedly scheming together to go to this, this Neveryland.
THE WINDOW: It was the most amazing thing! With a bit of the dust from that pixie, the children rose from the floor and before I knew it, the curtains were waving them goodbye and they were flying right past me!
NANA, THE DOG NURSE: I was terrified ou' tov me bonnet! What would their parents think? What was I going to do? I howled after them but they didn’t return. Not until later – much to my relief.
LONDON CHIMENYS: We did see them, indeed. Not rioght I’d say, children flyin' by a' such an hour o' the night. But went theys did, up past Big Ben and up into the sky.
BIG BEN: It’s a mystery to me where they went from there. They paused by my side to look to the sky and said something about a star, but I didn’t see them until later when they returned in the early hour of the morning.
THE BEDROOM WINDOW: They returned later, much to my relief. They were gone far too long I was franticly chattering in the evening chill wondering what their parents would think. But they came flying across my pane, tired little things, and waved goodbye to a pirate ship that sailed across the sky. Parents didn’t much know what to think of such a thing when they got home, children awake and staring up at the sky. Mr. Darling did look past me though, up with a slight and amazed smile on his face.
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