Page "The Sandman: A Game of You" Paragraph 11

As the story reaches its climax, Barbie discovers that the Cuckoo resembles herself as a child.

The Land turns out to be part of The Dreaming ; it is the setting of Barbie's childhood dreams, populated with animated images of her stuffed toys.

The Cuckoo is here shown to share many characteristics with real cuckoo birds, such as an ability to impersonate a child and to manipulate members of other species ( in this case humans and residents of the Land ).

She describes Barbie as " the perfect place to develop " and describes herself as " unable to fly.

" The reader learns that the Cuckoo's plan is to escape from the Land so that she can fly through the worlds and lay her own eggs in more young girls ' minds.

She causes Barbie to break the Porpentine on a monolith called the heirolith, an act that summons Morpheus, the Lord of Dreams and creator of the Land.