Major thanks to EpicClimax0 for the reveiw and favoutire. I really appreitate it! Sorry for anyone who wanted to read more I haven't been on my account in a while. i hope you enjoy the chapter!
Wren grabbed at her side where her satchel should have been, but her hands were left grabbing her tunic. Her eyes widened when she realized she had left it on the kitchen floor. She knew they couldn't go back now, not with that guy just being woken up. Seed switched on her goggles again, lighting up the inside of the kitchen wall. Spider webs clung to every corner and dust lined the walls. Pennelope coughed several times from the dust in the air. Seed rummaged through her bag again and pulled out light. She twisted the nob on the side, turning it on, and tossed it to Wren. Seed led the way down the wall, using worn out nails as stairs.
"Wow..." Pennelope breathed, "How long has it been since a borrower has used this passage?"
"I don't know... But I do know granny told us not to come near these old passages. She said they were unsafe, filled with spiders or something." Seed said, looking around at all of the thick cobwebs. "We don't have to worry though, we have lights! These will keep them away." Seed tapped her goggles to reassure Pennelope. "Or did lights attract them..." Seed asked herself, pausing for a moment. Pennelope shuddered at the thought. The three forged on, continuing until they made it all the way to familiar territory.
The sky was beginning to pale by the time they found their way to the garden. The garden was quite small but housed a surprising large verity of plants. Tomatoes, green beans, and a selection of herbs. The perfect place for a borrower to live. The grass was quite tall because of the lack of mowing but the backyard still looked quite nice. Three large trees grew in the back corner of the yard and provided shade from the scorching sun on hot days. Pennelope, Wren, and Seed kept close to the wall, making their way to a small portion of the outside wall that was well covered by a rose bush. A hole large enough to be used as a doorway was burrowed in the side of the wooden houses concrete foundation. The three made their way inside and was met with a lovely carved wooden door. Seed pushed it open and dropped her bag with a loud thud.
"Oooooh! its good to be home..." Seed yawned, stretching her arms. Pennelope's stomach growled as she squeezed past Seed, nearly tripping over her bag.
"Hey! Don't leave your stuff laying around!" Pennelope shouted as she regained her balance. Seed grit her teeth, "Just watch where you're going airhead." She teased. Wren sighed and made her way further into the house. She didn't make it very far until she was nearly hit in the face by a door swinging open in the hallway.
"Will you two shut up!" A raspy voice yelled from the doorway.
"Hello Granny!" Seed smiled cheerfully.
"That's Granny Sparrow!" The voice corrected her, stepping out into the hallway. Granny Sparrow had her hands on her hips, her wrinkled old face was scrunched into a frown but her gentle eyes showed she wasn't seriously angry. Her greying hair was fastened into a tight bun and her pink dress flowed neatly down her hips. Pennelope ran up to Granny Sparrow and pulled her into a tight hug. Granny Sparrow chuckled, her anger melting away.
"So, get on with it, what did you girls borrow tonight? Did you get me those crackers and some Tea like I asked?" Wren and Seed looked at their feet, feeling like they had disappointed the old woman.
"Umm... Actually we could only get the crackers this time Granny Sparrow..." Wren said, shuffling her feet, "The human woke up in the middle of our borrowing." Granny Sparrow's frown returned, but this time it was a worried frown.
"Please say he didn't see you." She said as Pennelope released her from the death hug. Wren shook her head, easing Granny's worries.
"But Wren got sooooooooo close and-" Pennelope's sentence was stopped by Seed's hand clasping over her mouth. Seed gave a nervous smile but Granny didn't say a word. She turned around and walked down the hallway and into the kitchen. The kitchen was a tidy little thing, with a small working stove and a few counter tops. The sink was a little off to the side and the tap dripped constantly. In the centre of the kitchen was a round table with four chairs around it. Granny sat down in one of the chairs, letting out a sigh of relief when she settled in.
"Put the crackers on the counter please sweetie." Granny said, pointing to one of the counters. Seed puled out the two crackers from her bag and set them on the counter, dusting the crumbs off of herself afterword.
"Thank you dear." Granny smiled, thrumming her fingers on the table as she thought about what to do about the tea.
"Hey Granny, I could run over to the market near town in a few hours and see if they have any tea there." Seed suggested, fidgeting with her orange sweater.
"Good idea Seed, but go and get some rest first will you?" Granny said. Seed nodded and skipped off to her room for a nap.
"I know exactly why she wants to go to the market..." Pennelope snickered. Wren elbowed her in the ribs to shut her up, but she ended up snickering slightly as well. Pennelope laughed and they both headed to their rooms.
Wren sighed wistfully was she flopped down onto her bed. She gazed around the room, looking at all of her pictures on her walls. She smiled, remembering how she had ripped each one out of a book that she had read. One was a picture of a haunting castle, another was a small rabbit huddled in it's underground home, but by far her favourite was the picture of a smiling cat. It's grin was so wild it nearly reached its ears. Wren sighed, remembering how she had torn it out at her first ever borrowing. As Wren's memories drifted through her head, she began to fade into dreamland. She was jerked awake by a loud crash from Seed's room.
"Sorry!" Seed yelled, shoving her half made contraptions to the side. Wren rolled her eyes and continued to drift into sleep.
"Will you be quiet Seed!" Granny Sparrow barked from the kitchen. Seed flinched at the sound of the barking woman.
"S-sorry..." she whispered, quickly stuffing her gizmos to one side of her room. She sat down on her bed and gave a nob of approval. Her room was so cluttered her bed almost looked like a boat in a sea of trash. She had countless unfinished projects scattered around her floor. Blueprints were stuck around her room like posters and the only places that didn't have clutter were her bed and her work bench. Seed laid down, a smile forming on her lips.
"I can't wait to go to the market!" She giggled in her mind, flipping onto her stomach and pointing her feet up into the air, wiggling them back and forth. She sighed and tried to calm herself down so she could fall asleep.
Pennelope laughed to herself, overhearing Seed have some troubles with her clutter. Pennelope tossed herself onto her bed, looking around and smiling at her various trinkets she had taped to the wall. She grabbed one of them off of her bedside table and started to fiddle with it. She remembered she had found it one day while out on a borrowing. It was oddly shaped and had rubber on one end of it. The bottom of it seemed to have frayed wires coming out of it. She looked at it from every angle, then shrugged and put it back. She put her hands behind her head and giggled.
"I am totally tagging along with Seed. I can't miss out on this teasing opportunity..." She snickered to herself. She gave a loud yawn and turned over, quickly falling asleep.