A Two - Inch Tall Prologue

Nod looked out of the palace window out into the forest. The setting sun reflected majestic and bright warm shades over the almost still pool, the light breeze being the only thing disrupting its surface. It has been exactly a year since M.K. stopped talking to him through her father's, Professor Bomba's, cameras that he set up across the forest. He had checked many times, but did not dare to get too close to the house of her father, too scared of being spotted by other humans. The thought had reached him many times. He wasn't scared of anything if it came to seeing M.K. Remembering her last day, he pressed his fingers to his lips, remembering their first kiss, and what Nod feared most, pos

"You alright?"

Ronin had appeared in the room and was worried, since his godson has never acted as sorrowful as he was at this current moment.

"You're thinking about M.K. aren't you Nod?

"It's been a whole year."

Ronin carefully walked over and sat on a seat next to the leafman, carefully choosing his words to not hurt him even further.

"She never truly left. She's one of us."

Nod remembered how he had said that to M.K. as well on the day of her leaving her two inch size and Moonhaven behind.

"But that doesn't make matters any better."

"Look Buddy, something might've happened to her and she stopped talking over the cameras. It wasn't any easier for me after Tara left, and the pain is still there, but you'll live on whether you are sad or hard working. I'm not saying you should stop loving her, or forget her, but just forget the pain that it causes, you know."

Nod looked over to his godfather, amazed at how much meaning he brought and how he understood his pain. He had always known he did, but it seemed unbelievable right now.

"Thank you."

As the two hugged each other and looked out onto the water, everything seemed so magnificent, like no harm would be done to Moonhaven. Little did any soldier know, that there was danger and destruction lurking amongst the shadows that same moment.