The Neverending Story - [Chapter 12] Ep#116

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Tonight, the Childlike Empress reaches the highest mountain in all Fantastica — climbing barefoot through ice on a ladder woven from warning letters. At the top, inside a great egg of glowing blue stone, she finds the Old Man of Wandering Mountain writing the very story you are listening to right now.