![]() ![]() When Tommy is done with his medical task, and Omri asks him if he’s ready to “wake up” now, and return to his proper time and size, he says: “Still and all, perhaps it’s a change for the better. The whole rotten war’s nightmare enough, though, without giants and-and-” He stared around Omri’s room. “A dream, is it? Well … I should’ve guessed. He thinks he’s dreaming, and he’s so grateful for this unexpected break from the horrors of the front. Tommy emerges from the cupboard straight out of the trenches. He is really a side character, a tiny plastic toy brought to life by Omri not to be a protagonist, but just someone to tend to the wounds of the titular Indian (Little Bull) and Boone, the cowboy (another recurring character). ![]() In the first book, The Indian in the Cupboard, Tommy is one of these plastic figures. ![]()
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