Ashleigh: There once was a little girl. She got lost one day, trapped in a hurricane, and she ended up in a beautiful place. (Ashleigh starts looking around, taking in everything) But even as she was seeing the beauty, she was struck by the sadness on the outside. Around the edges there was a sort of static. Something that didn't belong. (Ashleigh continues gazing around, but starts walking down the glass road) She wondered what it was as she walked along a road made of glass. Fragile and breakable. She had to step lightly or it would crack. She was wandering along when she saw a man. (Chris the Scarecrow is seen now. He's hung up against a pole in the middle of a desolate field, off the path. Ashleigh sees him and stares) But he was different, he was made of straw, hung up against a pole. He didn't seem to see her...but she saw him. (She starts running toward him) She ran toward him, quickly, quickly. She stopped in front him. (Ashleigh stops in front of Chris, panting with her hands resting on her knees. She looks up, unsure of what he is.) "Let me down," he begged, shaking violently. "Free me." When the voice over says this, Chris is mouthing the words and trying to break free of the ropes that hold him to the pole. Ashleigh starts to attempt to free him) She tried as hard as she could, but she couldn't seem to get him down. She tried and she tried but her hands just got lost in the tangled knots. (Ashleigh stops struggling with the ropes and looks in mild terror at her rope burned fingers) Then, suddenly, he burst into flames. (Chris bursts into flames, and Ashleigh jumps back, gasping in horror) The girl jumped back in horror, fearful of the flames and of the burning scarecrow. She tried to make out his face, and she saw that he was screaming for help. (She looks back at him in terror as he's begging for help when they hear Asia laugh) She heard a laugh, and there was a witch, beautiful and terrible, flying overhead, circling around the scarecrow. (Asia is flying on a broom around Chris's burning pole, wearing a black witch's hat and outfit, but she looks beautiful and glamorous and evil all at the same time) She laughed and laughed, satisfied with herself and her spells. The girl ran, afraid. (Ashleigh runs away from the field, occasionally looking back at Chris and Asia, and gets back on the glass road) She ran until she could no longer see the burning scarecrow or the witch. (Ashleigh looks around at where she is now. She is in a forest clearing. Nate the Tinman is there, paralyzed with rust) The girl looked around her new setting, and noticed a tin man, standing near a tree and an oil can. It looked as if he was frozen. He looked at her, and she at him. (Ashleigh and Nate look at each other; her slightly fearful, him just staring) And he seemed to beg for the oil can, so she grabbed it and gave him some, thinking it would be okay. (Ashleigh grabs the oil can and pours it on Nate, who can move and speak again. They laugh and link arms and look as if they are going to continue down the glass road.) And he thanked her, and they hugged and they walked, but he grew wary and stiff again and he needed more oil and she gave him some. (Ashleigh unlinks her arm from his and gives him more oil. She makes to continue, but he can barely go a few feet without needing more) But then barely any time passed before he wanted some more. She gave him a little, but he just wanted more and more and he was insatiable. (Ashleigh yanks the oil can away from Nate, and starts to back away.) So she wouldn't give him any more, and he begged and pleaded and tried to grab the can even as his tin limbs grew stiff once more and she ran from him, clutching the can, trying and failing to out run his screams. (Ashleigh runs away from a struggling Nate, who screams and screams until Ashleigh is too far away to see him) The girl hurried down the glass path, shaking and gasping for breath. And then she stopped. (Ashleigh is still in the forest, but this is an area with thicker trees.) She heard a noise, some sort of snuffling. She looked in between the trees, and then she saw something that made her draw back. (Ashleigh creeps between the trees and sees Joey, the lion, curled up and crying) She saw that it was a lion, huge and magnificent, and she was frightened. But then she saw that this peculiar lion man was crying, so she crept closer to him. (Ashleigh walks carefully toward Joey with her hand outstretched as though she might stroke him.) He cried as if his life were crumbling around him, as if everything were spiraling out of control. And he looked at her, and she looked back unflinchingly. And then he whispered, "I want to be brave." (Joey mouths the words as the voice over says them. Ashleigh has tears in her eyes too, and she allows him to hug her) He held her and begged her to make him brave. But she couldn't, she knew she couldn't. She was just as fearful as he was, she knew she didn't belong here, and the static was more apparent now and she struggled out of his grasp and ran. She ran down the fragile road and didn't look up until she was suddenly quite alone, outside of a building. (Ashleigh has run all the way to Westlake High, and she looks up at the school, her bow askew. And she opens the door and goes inside. The glass path is still there, and it leads her to the auditorium, where she sits in the audience.) She went inside and saw that glass road was still there, and she followed it all the way to the auditorium. And she went in there and she sat, and then she realized that the curtain was closed. She waited for someone to open it. She waited and she waited and the curtain stayed closed. No one seemed to be opening it. Why wasn't anyone opening it? And that's when she knew that she was the one who had to open it. She had to see what was behind the curtain. (Ashleigh gets up very suddenly and runs up the aisle, up the stairs, on to the stage.) So she ran up aisle and onto the stage and she yanked the curtains apart and she saw... (Ashleigh yanks open the curtain and the sound dissolves into static as she sees herself in a huge mirror for a split second, before she awakens)
