Amelia is a young girl who has a dream to fly. She wears her pilot’s cap everywhere and at every moment, even when she sleeps. She also loves to play on her tree swing, the closest feeling she can get to the exhilaration of flying. One night when she falls asleep, she gets an even closer encounter.
She finds herself in a whimsical and colorful dream world where her tree swing is on a floating island high among the clouds. She’s enjoying her swing as usual, swinging higher and higher as she goes until she jumps clear off her swing. To her surprise, she doesn’t fall – she flies! Amelia takes great advantage of this and soars to new heights, getting a birds eye view of her surroundings. While she is enjoying her flight, a canary flies up beside her and chirps merrily at her. Amelia takes great enjoyment in her new company until the bird does something odd. Somehow, the bird’s chirps start sounding more and more like the bells of an alarm clock chiming…
Amelia wakes up the next morning, sleepy but still happy from her pleasant dream, and turns off her alarm. She looks out her window at her beloved tree swing and gets a crazy idea – what if her dream could be real? The idea excites her and she sprints out of her house and jumps on her swing.
Everything is going perfectly and she’s about to get her swings high enough for sure lift off when she hears a loud crack. The branch her swing is on suddenly breaks from the tree and crashes down on her. She is unharmed, but extremely disappointed, and finds herself pinned to the ground to her family’s, the Earharts, farmland… for now.
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