Where in Oz are we now?
When we left Dorothy Gale and her yellow hen, Billina, last week, they had washed up on the shore of a land called Ev. They had an adventure with the Wheelers, and they met a new friend, a mechanical man named Tik-Tok. Tik-Tok proved to be a valuable and knowledgeable friend as long as Dorothy kept him wound up with a golden key.
He told her much about Ev, which lay across the deadly desert from the land of Oz. He explained to her that Ev used to be efficiently run under their King, but the King drowned himself in the ocean after he sold his wife and ten children to the Nome King.
Dorothy was imprisoned, locked up in a tower by the Princess of Ev, after refusing to give her her head. While in the tower, Dorothy saw coming across the deadly desert on a magic carpet, a delegation from Oz which included her old friends the Scarecrow, the Cowardly Lion, the Tin Woodman, and a company of soldiers. They were led by Ozma, the Princess of Oz, who had just learned that the King of Ev had sold his wife and children to the Nome King. And she was come with her army and friends to rescue them. When they learned that Dorothy was held prisoner in the Castle they freed her and her friends, and they all went to find the Nome King in his underground Palace.
They are now in the Palace of the Nome King, trying to free the rightful Queen of Ev and her ten children.
And the adventure continues.
posted by Roscoe