(Anna -- it's certainly fine by me, but Jude's not quite there yet.  If you can be patient with us for a few days, they'll certainly be a role for you. That is, of course, if it's okay with Kaileikehi.)<br/><br/><br/>"Let's go, then," he said.  "I have a friend who can get you some nicer clothes, and she might even be able to do something about that arm. "  Releasing her, he strode up and opened the door of the cottage.  Behind her, the grandfather clock -- the only thing in this world that didn't quite belong, that belonged to a world of funerals and ambulances and hospital rooms -- ticked away the seconds, its pendulum swinging from one side to the other.<br/><br/>Outside, if she chose to follow, she was greeted by an explosion of...light.  And color.  That was something you could say about the Sunlit Lands.  It was very bright, and it was very colourful.  Long ago, when Jude was in kindergarten, she had been tasked with drawing a place that she'd like to live in someday.  This... place, this world, was exactly like that.<br/><br/>Except that it wasn't drawn in in crayon, obviously.<br/><br/>Gentle green rolling hills, lush with grasses and flowers, surrounded the cottage; a wide, trickling river gurgled away in the distance.  All manner of birds flit through the air, trilling a song that seemed as complex and as orchestrated as any major civic symphony.  Ahead of her, a tall, white castle stretched, almost to the sun, trellises and battlements and towers almost gleaming.  Colorful banners waved and undulated in the breeze, bearing an insignia of Jude's favorite animal, done in Jude's favorite colors.<br/><br/>"Your castle, Jude," said Robin, smiling in the way of a rich uncle bestowing upon his favorite niece a grand present.<br/>