In the corner of the field, she discovered a lonely candy cane tree. Rachel skipped over to the tree excitedly to make a new friend. Avery told Rachel that on the other side of Candyland, the trees and flowers talked in Rose’s Candy Gardens so she couldn’t wait to see what this candy cane tree had to say. The had never met a talking tree! She gently knocked on the trunk, but the tree didn’t answer. Rachel was puzzled.
“Well, I guess the trees don’t talk around here. Maybe it’s sleeping?” she thought in her mind.
She glanced back to the mountain and the color started to fade a bit. It went from a rich brown to a mud brown.
“I better get to the other side of the mountain quickly! It looks like the color of the mountain is draining!” She thought if the color drained completely, it might disappear. Rachel broke off a striped branch, ran rapidly over to the fudge base of the rock candy mountain, and stuck the candy cane branch into the fudge. Then she used it like a step to reach up to a piece of rock candy sticking out on the mountain.
The princess thought, “I have to keep climbing it!” So she went higher and higher.
She grabbed the next rock on the mountain. The rock that she was standing on was slippery because it had just rained spiced cider. Her foot slipped and she began falling off the mountain! She landed at the bottom of the mountain with a thump.
Rachel ran back over to the lonely tree. There was a licorice vine growing on the tree. She pulled the vine off and the candy cane tree’s branches began to move back and forth, stretching.
oh now we can't have a lonely candy cane tree... can't wait to hear what's next!
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