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He closed the book and stood up. 'Enough wasting time, better get back to work.' He thought. But try as he might he found himself unable to concentrate, he soon picked up the book again. He flipped near to the end of the book.

'As the Childlike Empress gazed out on the land of Fantasia from a window of the Ivory tower her thoughts turned to him, as they did very often. Bastian Balthazar Bux, the hero of Fantasia, the boy whose dreams saved her and her world.'

Bastian paused again, his eyes widened. 'Bastian Balthaz Bux'!? That was no coincidence, maybe Mr. Koriander himself had written this novel?

But-but, this Childlike Empress…that name…no it was just imagination. He read further down the page.

'She thought back on when she had first encountered the boy, he was shy and timid, afraid to really dream. When he overcame that he named her. Moon Child, it was such a beautiful name, she was proud to carry it. Others would still call her Empress, but she would always love it when he called her by her true name.'

"Moon Child!?" Bastian said, he knew that name, and that's when it hit him. All of it.