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Book Two

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Ghost Park

This is the world where the story of the second book unfolds.
The map shows the key locations from the book.
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  • A New Encounter with Freddy the Scarecrow

    Facing her stood Freddy the Scarecrow — the very same one she had once met not far from the Ghost Mansion.

  • Entrance to HeinoLand Park

    The squirrels quickly lined up around her, and another bushy-tailed one snapped photos with a shiny camera. Not even a minute had passed, and already a large crowd of curious onlookers had gathered. Everyone was gasping and pointing at Anne.

  • Souvenir Shop

    Firecurl stared into the shop window and… froze. From a huge poster inside, her own face glared back at her — twisted into an ugly, threatening grimace.

  • Souvenir Shop

    Червенокоска се вгледа във витрината и … зяпна. От огромен плакат насреща я гледаше собственото ѝ лице, разкривено в грозна, заплашителна гримаса.

  • The Show Theater

    Anne felt her vision darken. Without thinking of the consequences, she leapt from her seat and rushed toward the stage. Pouchy tried to hold her back, but couldn’t — nothing could stop Anne in moments like this.

  • The Mississippi Dock

    Fortunately, the path she was running along really did lead them to a small wooden jetty, in front of which a charming little steamboat was puffing gently — complete with a tall black smokestack and large paddle wheels on either side.

  • The Underwater Dwelling

    The sight that opened before her eyes struck her so deeply she stood frozen in place. She was in a vast underwater cave — so enormous that, despite the abundant light coming from somewhere above, its end disappeared into a greenish-yellow murk.

  • Back on Dry Land

    Firecurl barely managed to scramble ashore, collapsed onto the sand, and lay still. A long time passed that way. When she finally came to, the first morning rays were just beginning to light up the treetops.

  • The Transformed Swamp

    Anne’s fears were confirmed — unpleasant surprises awaited them at every turn. The Orchid Meadow had been cut through by numerous paths, the swamp was ringed with several bridges, and Grandpa Hedgehog’s little mill had been turned into part of a large swimming complex.

  • A New Encounter with the Eagles

    The two friends jumped in fright and turned to see who was speaking. Opposite them stood a huge young eagle, eyeing them mockingly. He was dressed in faded jeans and a T-shirt whose color was impossible to identify.

  • The Citadel

    A bit farther upstream, about two or three hundred meters away, rose a massive concrete wall — so imposing in its colossal proportions that it seemed to be straining to overshadow the entire sky.

  • The Site of the Aerial Battle

    The early morning haze suddenly filled with the shadows of attackers — one, two, three... Anne stopped counting. They were the owls from the camp’s security force — individually much weaker than the powerful eagle, but together surely very dangerous.

  • The Prison Camp

    The group of prisoners gathered in front of a small wooden barrack, which was clearly their sleeping quarters. Though they were all more or less in rags, their backs were not bent, and their heads were not bowed in submission.

  • Heino’s Disgrace

    Heino looked around wildly. It was too late to run — the magic would surely strike him down before he could take more than a few steps. Ah, how cruel that dog-head girl was, toying with him like a cat with a mouse.

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Secrets from Ghost Park

Scenes in which Firecurl’s adventures continue,
and friendship must triumph
over false stories and new dangers.

Book Two – Selected Scenes

  • Money, Kill, Magic

  • The Sorrow of
    Justa Diva

  • Travelling by boat

  • The Chess Duel

  • The Citadel

  • The queen of video games

  • The Air Battle

  • The battle in the
    show-theatre

  • The tricks of
    Pouchy

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Money, Kill, Magic

Magic doesn’t break — it suffocates
under the weight of shiny coins,
false value, and the whirlwinds
that spin everything… except the wonder.

Watching closely, Anne swung the hammer and smashed the sphere. The result exceeded all her expectations. Within seconds, a real drama unfolded before her eyes. From the center of the forest, a small cloud rose, quickly thickened, and began to swirl, gradually transforming into the magical whirlwind she knew so well.

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Reflections on the scene

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The second book opens not with a bang, but with a mystery—and a blockage. Anne is back in the real world, but the door to the Forest seems sealed. The magical game is gone, and Mr. Laptsev is nowhere to be found. What remains is a single, forgotten token from the Forest: a snow globe. But instead of transporting her back, it shows her something deeply unsettling. The Forest has changed. It has become something else—an amusement park, a theme world. Hainoland™.

This is the book’s first brutal shock: the magical world of Book I has not only failed to heal but has been colonized. Commercialized. Repackaged. And—most disturbingly—Anne can no longer access it.

The cause? The snowflakes in the globe aren’t snow at all. They’re coins. Money. They fall like a blizzard across the Forest and form a dense coating that suffocates the magic. In a brilliant stroke of satire, the book literalizes its central message: money kills magic.

Anne’s efforts to reenter the Forest become a metaphor for resistance. She and the now-silent Backpack study the globe, observe, decode. The magical whirlwind that once carried her in is still trying to form—but is crushed again and again by a stronger whirlwind made of money.

This scene is quiet but radical. It sets the tone for the entire book: satire, betrayal, disillusionment—and a new kind of courage. Anne must now fight not just evil, but entropy. Not just monsters, but ideology.

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Participants in the scene

  • Anne

  • Pouchy

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The Sorrow of Justa Diva

The story has been rewritten,
the friends are gone,
and the saviors have become threats.
Something broke—and no one heard it.

“So… what happened?” Anne didn’t understand any of it, and that made her feel insecure and nervous.

“Well, at first... Heino began to appear more and more often on TV, giving speeches in which he explained at great length that the time had come... for certain things in the Forest... to change. And strangely — it’s not like anyone heard him yelling or threatening. Nothing like that. He was always smiling, calm, and polite, but his words still felt... oppressive.”

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In this hauntingly theatrical scene, Anne steps into the heart of the enemy’s illusion — a theme park turned propaganda machine. “The Great Showdown” is more than a spectacle: it’s the symbolic rewriting of truth as entertainment. Heino has weaponized memory and turned Anne into a villain. Her face, twisted in a caricature of fury, is sold on mugs and T-shirts. The Forest itself is now a stage-set, a hollow replica of magic’s ruins.

But the deeper blow comes from within. Anne’s own reflection mirrors the posters. Her anger has disfigured her. When she grabs the microphone and screams the truth, her outburst only feeds the myth she seeks to destroy. The scene becomes a study in tragic irony: Anne fights the lie but ends up confirming it in the public eye.

Then — a twist. The traitor diva, Justa, saves Anne from the spiders. Her confession, bitter and broken, uncovers the backstory of betrayal. It wasn’t evil, but weakness — and vanity. The enemy didn’t use brute force to take the Forest. He simply offered a better deal.

What we see is a satire of our own times: how money hijacks art, how spectacle drowns truth. But also, how resistance begins with seeing clearly. Anne’s rage may backfire, but her refusal to accept the lie is a first spark. Even the burned-out diva remembers joy — and that, too, is a beginning.

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  • Anne

  • Pouchy

  • Justa Diva

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Traveling by boat

There’s sun, lemonade and laughter on deck.
But the bottom is not far away –
and not all the waiters are serving tea.

Meanwhile, the spiders and Mr. Rabbit had stepped in front of them, eyeing them with unfriendly suspicion.

“Tickets for inspection, if you please,” said the smaller of the two spiders, rubbing two pairs of hands with impatience. “And if possible, a bit quicker.”

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In this scene, the tension and danger of the ghost park begin to fully reveal themselves. The illusion of comfort aboard the riverboat quickly gives way to paranoia and pursuit. Mr. Bunny returns — now disguised as a waiter — and though he seems harmless at first, his betrayal unleashes the full force of Heino’s surveillance state. Anne and the Backpack’s escape becomes a chaotic sprint for survival.

But amid the action, a deeper allegory unfolds. The golden ticket, absurdly obtained in a toilet stall by trickery, turns out to be the only escape route — a satirical comment on the randomness and arbitrariness of privilege. Who gets to leave, who gets caught, and who controls the rules?

The climax is Anne’s leap into the river. It mirrors her earlier plunge into the Fire of Eternal Change, yet now it’s no longer a moral test but a political necessity. She is no longer only a child facing inner trials — she is now a fugitive hunted by a regime. Book II marks this transformation clearly: the personal and political are no longer separable.

Even the setting betrays its dreamlike surface. What seemed like a whimsical boat ride turns out to be a floating trap, complete with hidden speakers, surveillance routines, and pre-scripted applause. The comfort is staged. The threat is real.

And yet, Anne doesn’t panic — she acts. Her decision to jump is abrupt, even foolish, but it reclaims the narrative. In a world of managed illusions, the one true gesture is a plunge into uncertainty. And that, more than any speech or ticket, becomes her declaration of truth.

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Participants in the scene

  • Anne

  • Pouchy

  • Mr. Rabbit

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