Upon returning home, however, Sally soon realizes that she may have released a new nightmare on the land. It takes all of Sally’s will, and quite a bit of tugging from Zero, to keep her out of the mysterious doorway carved with an ancient image of a moon. And when she opens the door in this portal tree, she suddenly feels light-headed and dizzy and almost falls in. That’s when Sally and Zero are drawn to a hidden-away, briar-covered tree that she’s never seen before. Would Jack be angry if she simply disappeared and left all the stress behind?
Should she just go back to the lovely Valentine’s Town and hide out for a while? Sally wonders. They find themselves in the grove of trees that hold portals to other holiday realms. In her despair, Sally runs from town, with loyal ghost dog Zero on her heels. When Sally looks in the mirror, she sees a collection of patchwork cloth and roughly sewn stiches filled with crumbling brown, dead leaves. Other than being the queen of her beloved Jack’s heart-something that Sally is unquestionably certain she was stitched together to be-she has huge doubts about fulfilling any kind of look-at-me leadership role. When the newly married couple take a short honeymoon in Valentine’s Town, they discover the queen of that realm is every inch the graceful, beautiful and regal monarch that a holiday town deserves. They demand that she stand up straight and be graceful as a queenly queen of the night ought to. The vampires and witches of her cobwebby realm expect her to act and dress differently. She doesn’t feel much like a queen, but after marrying her truest of loves, Jack Skellington, she is indeed one of only two royals in the land. Sally the living ragdoll is now queen of Halloween Town.
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