By: Lauren Wu

In a floating town, where the clouds were cotton candy, lived an adventurous girl named Rachel. One day, she decided to go exploring. When she walked by some rock candy rocks, she noticed that there was a baby penguin trapped under it. After a moment of thinking, Rachel decided to wiggle the rock so that the baby penguin could come free. A few minutes later, she made a big enough hole for the little penguin to wiggle through. The penguin chirped happily. Rachel decided to name the little thing Penny.

Rachel noticed that Penny had many cuts and scratches on her. She went back to the village to see if anyone knew of a place to help Penny. An old and wise cloud man said of a healing garden close to the village. Rachel started packing for the journey right away. She put snacks, a map to the healing garden, called Starlight Meadow, and a blanket for Penny in her bag. Then, following the map, she set off.

She followed the map through the fluffy cotton candy clouds with Penny wrapped in the blanket. Halfway there, she found a cloud where she and Penny could rest. Rachel opened her bag and took out the snacks. Together, she and Penny munched on them happily. Once finished, she wrapped Penny in the blanket again and once again, set off for Starlight Meadow.

Finally, Rachel arrived at the garden. She was exhausted when she entered, and some kind healers from the garden took her and Penny into a hut. In the hut, they treated Penny’s wounds with special healing crystals. The healers handed Rachel a bag of the crystals so she could help the village people back at home. Rachel carefully put the bag inside her bag.

The healers called a dove to send them home. Once home, Rachel set up her healing area in a corner of the town. In the later days, she and Penny helped children and adults, with Rachel healing and Penny cheering up the patients.