3rd Person

“It can’t be locked!” Riley insisted. “We just got ins!”

“Maybe it locked aut-auto… you knows, on its own.”

Paisley guessed, unable to navigate her tongue around the big word.

“Maybe,” Riley agreed. “But eithers way, we’re definitely moving” The trunk was rocking back and forth, and they could hear footsteps outside.

1 thinks we’re being carried?” Paisley whispered nervously.

“Do you thinks the boys are moving too?” Riley wondered.

“I dunno.” Paisley frowned, distracted when the trunk stilled with a sudden jolt, and a strange rumbling filled the air. “Wha’s that noise?”

Riley leaned up to the keyhole in the wooden siding, trying to peer through.”l sees the other trunk!” She shared excitedły. “But we’re not in the street anymore.”

Even as she spoke, they jerked forward again, banging their slight shoulders into the walls of their wooden enclosures. “Where are we then?” Paisley whimpered.

“You’re not going to like it.” Riley told her, gazing around the dimly lit space outside.

“Why nots?” Paisley questioned with trepidation.

“Cuz I think we’re in the back of a truck… or van.” She guessed. “lt looks kinda like the van Anita had us in, only there’s much nicer things” Indeed, the back of the strange vehicle was full of clothing racks and painted set pieces, not that the child recognized these items. All she saw was sparkly fabric and what looked like painted tapestries.

“But Mommy and Daddy are back in the cloud city!”

Paisley all but wailed, “we can’t be going someplace else!”

Riley wrapped her arms around her sister, leaning her small head against Paisley’s. “I don’t think we have a choice.”

She confessed. “l think we’re going someplace new, whether we likes it or not.”

In the other trunk, Ryder and Parker were having much the same conversation. They’d noticed they were moving just as quickly, and also tried to escape their confines. For a moment they’d been afraid they were back on a boat, the way they were rocking about, but thankfully that ceased before either could be sick. Instead they found themselves lurching to a stop before the engine began and the van set off.

a bearing on his surroundings When he was certain there were no people around,

A whispered shout came back. “We can’t get outs,

could shout for help?”

will only get us caught by whoever’s driving.” Parker reasoned.

stop, maybe they’ll takes us back to Mommy and

go to the police. We can’t risk it!”

Riley and Paisley said in unison. “Let’s just hope they

hope rather than a fact.

girls exchanged worried glances through the

“We hope so too.”

quadruplets Sophie dashed around the corner, intent on finding Jane and Ethan again, only

“Have you seen the new pups?

pups rather than taking them through the city with her and Bailey.”No! How did they escape?” She asked, adopting a

– I don’t know’ Fabian growled. “But

make us a fortune begging

offered, “They can’t have gotten

the East

Fabian suggested.

to near the secret entrance to the tunnels. “1 doubt

they’re

smart enough to get out of their

Sophie reminded him pointedly.

take North, you take

amended, charging off without

Linda. They all whipped around in surprise when she appeared behind them, Bailey hiding behind her

this way, but be careful,” Sophie cautioned, ” Fabian knows

the young pair, their pulses racing with excitement. Jane was trying very hard not to get ahead of herself. She wouldn’t relax until her babies were safe

pressed,

l helped them hide in some big trunks” She shared, more than a little proud of herself.

cuz I ran into Fabian a minute

thinking” Thomas

right over….What? No!” Sophie ran forward, spinning around on the spot. She’d just been

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