“Did you tell him what Never Land truly is, that he and his pirate friends didn’t survive the battle with the Kraken?” Circe hated how much delight her mother was taking in all of this, but she swallowed her rage and pushed it down deep within herself, even though she knew it was dangerous to do so. If she hadn’t she would have reached into the mirror and pulled her mother out, ending all of this at last. But she knew that would be the final breaking of her already shattered soul.

“I should have told him when he came to me in the Dead Woods. That’s why we tried to make him stay.”

Lucinda laughed. “Just as it was written. But it’s all tangled, isn’t it? All these stories, one wouldn’t happen without the other. And thanks to you Hook will be the cowardly pirate he was meant to be, an eternal plaything for Peter and his Lost Boys. Forever lost in Never Land.”

THE END