Do you ever just meet people who are so positively naïve about everything? There is nothing wrong with being positive, but the world just doesn't work the way those people think it does. Meet Em, the girl who saved a world because she just didn't know better.

You know that feeling you get the day before the summer vacation starts? That excitement, you think of all the wonderful things you're going to do and all the amazing things that might happen? That feeling you get when you are finally free to do whatever you want to do? Yeah me neither, but that's not the point. This is a world where we still know what that feels like. For a moment, just a short moment, leave all your sorrows behind, in this world we can dream again.

It was the day before the summer vacation started. Everyone was excited for the upcoming vacation, just a couple more hours and they'd be free.

Emmanuelle only had four hours of school, but they felt like eternity. When school finally finished the first thing she did was go to library, the vacation had finally started and she finally had the time to read all her favourite books.

Rose was very done with school when the summer vacation finally started. And to be fair, she kind of hoped that something would happen so that she'd never have to go to school again. She'd read about worlds where school wasn't important, or worlds where school didn't even exist. About characters that went on adventures and about magic. Haven't we all been there? Wanting to live inside a book, wanting to go on adventures with your favourite characters. If you grew up, like me, and realized that you'd probably die within a week if that ever actually happened, then I am going to nicely ask to please forget the fact that you ever grew up. You're 12 years old again, magic is real, adventures are cool and we can be heroes. Just for a second forget that our world is falling apart, forget the mess outside, remember how to dream.

For Ash the summer vacation started a little different. Their vacation started with a fight. Someone had called them a coward and their fists had responded before their brain did. Ash' vacation started by running away from their foster home after fighting a classmate. Now I know that I told you to set aside your sorrows and dream while reading this story only to immediately introduce a character with a lot of problems and sorrows. But I promise you, this is not the story of someone fighting with demons and dragons. This is not the story of a broken child growing up. It's the story of someone who learned how to fly, someone who learns that dragons are not monsters. Someone who learns that slaying dragons is not a deed of bravery, only a coward would destroy such a majestic creature. A brave person would learn how to fly instead. So maybe you won't forget all of your sorrows while reading this story, but maybe, just maybe you will remember what it feels like to fly.

And then there is Azrail, whose name means angel of death. Azrail, the boy who wouldn't talk. The boy who hasn't a word since the day he was adopted and no one is really sure if he ever said a word before that. He wasn't mute, he could talk, he just never did and no one really knew why. His summer vacation didn't really start, he hadn't gone to school to begin with. I don't really know what to tell you about this angel of death, so I'll just leave him be.

You can leave your sorrows behind and think that the world is still a fantastic and magical place with Emmanuelle, you might save the world just because you believed you could. Or you can leave most of your sorrows behind and dream a better world with Rose, you will fight for that world, you will hold on, no matter how hard it gets. Or you could drown in your sorrows with Ash, as long as you also learn how to fly with them. Or maybe you will disappear into the darkness with Azrail. Maybe you will carry the sorrows of the universe on your back. Together you can prefer silence in a world that never shuts up. This story may have its dark parts, but I promise you it won't have a dark ending. Maybe I'm spoiling the story for you when I say that it won't have a dark ending, but I promised you a world where we can dream again. There may be darkness in this story, but it will never be hopeless, and as long as there is hope we can dream.

So I'm asking you, dream with me, remember how we wanted to be mermaids, elves and dragons. Remember how we wanted to save the world, how we dreamed of saving worlds. Remember how we dreamed of magic and wonder. The world we live in may be a horrible and broken place, and it won't stop being broken, it won't stop being horrible. People will do still horrible things and horrible things will still happen. But I am asking you, believe in magic with me, and maybe for a moment, it will be real. Close your eyes and imagine, imagine a world filled with wonders, remember how to be a child again. Close your eyes and dream. And then for the sake of me writing this story please open them again so that you can continue reading.