The eight year old girl ran through the slush filled streets barefoot, trying to block out the screaming of her parents, not paying attention to where she was going and hit a spot of black ice causing her to slip, falling to the ground hard. As she hit the ground she let out a silent gasp and tears started running from her dark blue eyes from the pain in her side.

Unknown to her, she was being watched by a silent figure in the sky, he frowned slightly and lowered his cloud of sand to the ground until he was able to stand in front of her, hoping she would be able to see him. When she didn't look up after a minute the Sandman, or Sandy as he was called by his fellow Guardians, made some of his dreamsand to swirl around in front of her face.

Peeking through her strawberry blond hair and noticing the dreamsand, the little girl blinked once and looked up to see Sandy standing in front of her. She reached out, timidly, to touch the dreamsand and smiled up at Sandy when butterflies formed from the sand. He returned her smile as he held out a hand to help her up.

Once she was on her feet, Sandy formed a question mark above his head, wanting to know her name. The girl thought for a second about what the question mark meant, when she figured it out her hands started moving. (My name is Andrea. Are you the Sandman?) She signed eagerly.

Sandy stared at her, unsure of what she was doing with her hands, never have seen anyone use sign language before. Knowing that he would need help in understanding her Sandy thought of who he could go to. When he didn't answer her Andrea's hands stilled and fell to her sides and her head lowered, thinking that he didn't want anything to do with her anymore, and started to slowly walk away.

Before she could get far though a hand gently touched her shoulder causing Andrea to look over her shoulder to see Sandy beckoning for her to follow him, an image of someone holding a staff followed by a snowflake appearing above his head. Andrea's eyes widened when she figured out who he meant and began signing again, quickly. (Jack Frost is real, everyone always said he wasn't! What about Santa Clause….)

Before she could continue, Sandy placed his hands on her's and shook his hand to show he didn't understand. Getting what he was telling her Andrea nodded before placing a hand to her mouth and shaking her head to say she couldn't speak, shocking Sandy. After making sure no one was around to see, Sandy gently wrapped an arm around Andrea's waist and created his dreamsand cloud once more in order to go seek out Jack, hoping he could help.