Page 50 of Searching for Thanksgiving

“Come on, Morah. Come on,” Pearl hissed.

“Wait a minutes. I gots to get the bag,” Morah retorted.

“We can’t go until James and Leo gets back,” Sacha said.

“What if we are too lates?” Hope fretted, wringing her hands together.

“We won’t be,” Morah growled with determination.

The girls turned when Leo’s head popped through the hole in the ‘Girl’s Only’ clubhouse that Alice and Adaline had made for them in the large tree. The girls scooted back so he could climb through. A second later, James followed.

“Did you finds it?” Morah asked.

Leo rolled his eyes and snorted. “Of course we founds it!”

“What tooks you so long?” Pearl demanded.

“I had to wait until my mommy and daddy were busy. Every sinces Amber and Jade tried to builds a spaceship, Mommy keeps her workroom locks up,” James explained.

“How did you get in?” Hope asked.

“Prime helped me… and Amber and Jade,” James replied.

“Amber and Jade! Are they going to stops us?” Morah demanded.

“No, we are not going to stop you,” Amber replied, sticking her head through the opening. “James, if you guys are going, you’d better go now. We’ve got the adults covered for the moment.”

James grinned and nodded. “Thanks, sissy.”

Amber stuck her tongue out at her little brother before she disappeared. Morah sighed with relief. Having the help of the adolescent Dragonlings was going to make this mission a lot easier. Ever since they returned three days ago, their parents had been keeping a close eye on them. Honestly, she was amazed that they had been allowed out into the garden with only Auntie Riley, Auntie Tina, and Auntie Melina. Until this morning, it had been all her uncles… including Hope’s two daddies, watching them!

“Follows me,” James instructed.

Morah watched with a puzzled frown as James motioned for Sacha to move to the side. He opened a small panel in the wall of the clubhouse. On the other side was a slide. He climbed onto it and disappeared. Leo grinned at her and went next.

“We are gonna gets caught. My mommy is going to sees us,” Pearl muttered.

Morah peered down the slide, grinned, and shook her head. “No, they won’ts.”

She climbed over the lip of the slide and pushed off. The tunnel slide wound around to the ground, but instead of her landing at the bottom, she kept going into a deep hole at the base. She smothered a squeal of laughter when she landed on a thick, soft pillow… underground. She grinned up at Spring who winked at her.

“Thank you!” she breathed out as Spring helped her to her feet.

Spring giggled. “We dragonlings have to stick together. I’ve made a tunnel all the way to the hedges by the door that leads down to the dungeons. Amber and Jade are working on the security system.”

“What’s about our parts to the plans?” Morah asked, stepping to the side as Sacha, Pearl, and Hope appeared.

“Hope and Sacha will take the tunnel to the left when it forks. That will lead them to the right place, but you’ve got to hurry. Phoenix overheard Daddy talking to Mommy. They have moved Devon’s symbiot to a different chamber. I think they are going to destroy it,” Spring said.

“We gots this,” Hope and Sacha said together.

They both shifted in their different forms and took off before Morah could say another word. Morah looked up when Spring placed her hand on her shoulder. She straightened as tall as she could in the tunnel.

“We are all very proud of you. Just… be careful. Our parents are very worried about the symbiot. I don’t understand why. Maybe because it looks different, but… so does Phoenix and that doesn’t mean she is bad,” she murmured.

“Stripe is good. I knows. I sees into its heart,” Morah said with confidence.

“Go. I’ve got to go pretend I’m you,” Spring replied with a grin as she held up the AI replicator that Amber and Jade had invented.

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