When Peter disappears for a season — chasing adventures with Wendy and the Lost Boys — Tink and Terence work side by side again. The Hollow feels warm, familiar, peaceful.

But when Peter finally returns, covered in stardust and stories, Tink rushes to him, smiling wide.

Terence watches from afar. He’s happy for her — or he tries to be. But when she laughs that laugh he’s missed for months, something in him breaks quietly.

That night, he sits beneath the Dust Tree and whispers to the roots,

“Why can’t I ever be the one she waits for?”