![]() ![]() 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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