Neverland AcademyMeet the Characters
The eldest Lost Boy — the vain one, quite certain he remembers his mother.
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Slightly's signature is a broad soft grey wolf mantle — the wolf's masked hood pushed back off his crown, the brush of its tail trailing behind him like a small dark cape. Every Lost Boy has an animal; the wolf is his.
He claims his mother pinned it to his blanket the day he was lost, and that it is the source of his name. When the fireflies gathered around his shoulders and the second star showed him the way, he did not laugh — he tucked the tag carefully inside his shirt.
Slightly whittled his own pipe and played it with real skill. He carried a mirror-shard for his hair. And because he was convinced his figure was grander than the others', he cut his own tree-trunk doorway a little wider than the rest.
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This is the true story of Slightly. He was found once in Kensington Gardens — a black pram tipped in the tall grass at the end of a long path, and no one came back for him. J.M. Barrie tells us the fallen children are taken to Neverland if they are not claimed within seven days. Slightly was not claimed. But Slightly claims a great deal.
He claims his mother pinned a small brass name-tag to his blanket the day he was lost. He claims it is the source of his name. And when the fireflies gathered around his shoulders and the second star showed him the way, he did not laugh — he tucked the tag carefully inside his shirt.
In Neverland he became a Lost Boy — but not just any Lost Boy. The eldest of them, a head taller than the others, and quite certain that he had been born to lead. He appointed himself second-in-command. He wore a grey wolf mantle where the others wore fox or bear — the wolf's masked hood pushed back off his crown, the brush trailing behind him like a small dark cape.
He whittled his own pipe. He played it with real skill. He carried a mirror-shard for his hair. And because he was convinced his figure was grander than the others', he cut his own tree-trunk doorway a little wider than the rest. When Wendy came, he bowed a shade too formally. And when Peter went away, it was Slightly who walked the perimeter of the Home Under the Ground with his chin a little too high.
Then the storm came, and the pirates. Slightly was tied back-to-back with the others against the mast — and even then his chin was lifted. He palmed a fallen blade behind his back. He sawed the rope in three slow cuts, and he leapt from the rail with the wolf mantle spread wide behind him like a sail.
He went home in the end. He grew up. He put on a frock coat and a burgundy cravat, and he combed his hair as best he could — but a stubborn lock still lifts at his crown. He is the only Lost Boy who insists he remembers. And when he lifts the small brass tag to eye level in the firelight, the polished brass catches the shape, for one moment, of a wolf's masked hood.
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