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Hi Muse!ÄThis is the second email that I’ve sent to Muse. This is kind of urgent. The Space Patrol dragons detected an unknown substance coming from the Milky Way. It’s floating to my world, and it seems to be gathering heat from the stars (including the Sun!). At first, it was only a tiny thing that even my dad couldn’t tell what it was. My younger sister, Bloom, told the rest of us to assume that it was one of those small asteroids. But when my brave uncle Thunder went into space to investigate, he didn’t come back.

It’s been like this for five months now, and we’re starting to get worried. Luckily, yesterday, our Space Mail dragon found a letter that he wrote—I mean carved—for my dad, Puff. We were relieved. It was carved on a

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