This is a bedtime story for grown ups about an elderly lady receiving a postcard from a friend. She reads that postcard as the story unfolds about a woman travelling around the world in search of the strange and mysterious. She is on a train which passes through a mountain tunnel, but exits in a different reality. The woman then goes on a journey through the land to find a solution so that the train can continue on in its own reality again. On her journey she encounters a friendly hippo who gives her some items to help her on her quest. She finds her way to a magical door in ancient ruins of a city in the woodland. The other side of that magical door is a meadow with a parrot and an orange dinosaur. They guide her to the coastline where she gets help from a Humpback whale. She continues on and finds a town, where a cardinal in a purple cloak makes her a warm coat, before she heads to the glass mountains, meets a fairy who tells her how to change the reality around the train, before finding her way back to the train and continuing her journey. After reading the postcard, the elderly lady heads to bed and drifts peacefully asleep into Slumberland.

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