Chapter 1
Lina and Doon had reached the outside world with Poppy. They boated through a raging river and climbed for several hours, but they were finally here. It was especially hard with a toddler on their hands, but they made it. Lina was so happy, she didn't know what to do with herself. "Hey Doon, what's that over there?" Doon looked to where she was pointing.
"I honestly do not know." Doon replied. He approached the small furry creature and started to draw it in his notebook, when it jumped on him. At first, Doon screamed. Then he realized that it was Poppy wearing some soft kind of fabric, called fur. Doon giggled along with the two girls as he started to erase his drawing in his notebook. He smiled at Lina. "Did you do this?" he questioned.
"Maybe." Lina replied, not revealing anything.
"You did do this!" Doon shouted, playfully.
They all started to play chase. Poppy waddled along on her tiny legs, trying to catch up to Doon and Lina.
Poppy tripped and fell. She had scraped her knee and she started to cry.
Lina rushed over to Poppy. "What's the matter, sweetie?"
Doon slowly followed Lina.
"Weg. Scrathed." Poppy said.
"Your leg is scratched?" Lina asked.
Poppy nodded. She started to sob even louder than before.
"Ssshhhh. Everything will be alright." Lina cradled Poppy in her arms and rocked her back and forth, as Doon started to collect a strange pokey plant. It was called aloe.
Doon brought the plant leaf over to Poppy and squeezed the liquid out onto her knee.
This caused Poppy to freak out even more. She screamed and shouted until she couldn't anymore.
Lina set Poppy down gently onto the grass, hoping she would fall asleep. She walked over to Doon. "We need to make a shelter." she said.
Doon nodded. He walked around picking up some sticks. "Will these do?" he questioned.
Lina smiled. "Those are perfect! Find really long ones."
They started to collect really long sticks and some large rocks. Lina outlined an area with the large rocks for where their shelter would be.
Doon started to prop the large sticks up against the rocks on either side. They stood up to make a tepee.
Lina noticed what Doon was doing. She smiled and ran to get more sticks. She picked up one after the next and made a pile next to the foundation of their 'house'.
Doon kept stacking and stacking them. Some sticks started to fall. "Hey Lina, do you think you can get me some of that green rope hanging from the trees?"
"Sure!" Lina replied. She jumped up and climbed the trees to get the green rope. 'What is this?' she thought. Lina saw a label on it. "Vines." she said to herself. She gathered a bunch of the vines and took them back to Doon.
Doon took the vines out of her hands and started to tie the tops of the sticks together.
Lina nodded. "What a great idea, Doon!" She glanced over at Poppy, who had finally fell asleep.
He didn't say anything back to Lina, as he was focused building them a shelter.
Doon had finished building the tepee a few hours later. By the time he was finished, the sun started to set.
Lina picked up Poppy and gently laid her down on the grass bed. She curled up around her and started to fall asleep.
Doon smiled at the two girls. He laid down at the opposite side of the giant tepee and fell asleep. 'Tomorrow is going to be a great day!' he thought to himself.