"Wake up, longears, time for breakfast!" Justine the roving hedgehog called
to her sleeping friend Callista, who was lying comfortably under a sweet-
smelling apple tree.
Callista immediately woke up at the mention of breakfast and rushed to the tree stump where Justine was preparing potato salads for her friend and herself. Without saying "Good morning", she wolfed down the entire bowl of salad set before her and asked with her mouth full, "Mmfh?"
Justine answered, "Sorry, no seconds. We're running out of potatoes.I don't know why every night I find some missing."
Suddenly Callista pushed Justine and herself flat down on the ground into a bush as a spear whizzed past her ear.
A gruff voice about 5 feet away questioned menacingly, "Who's eatin' away mewily on my tewitowy?"
Justine peeked out of the bush and saw that the animal was actually just a baby badger playing around with some blunt spears. She cleared her throat and growled deeply, "Get outta here, ya lil badgey, or we'll roast ya and toast ya and eat ya chubby arms and legs!"
The badger babe swallowed visibly, then puffed out her chest and shouted back, "I not afwaid of you nasty vermin! I gonna fight to da death like my papa told me to! Eulaliaaaaaaaaaaa!
The two friends rushed out of the bush just in time to save the badger from falling into the stream nearby.
"Hold your horses, there, little one," Justine grunted as she tried to stop the badger from waving her spear crazily about.
Callista studied the young badger's face and stated solemnly, "This scoundrel is Lord Snowstripe's daughter, Lynette. From all the tales I've heard, this little rascal has perfect aim, especially with spears."
Lynette looked up at the girls and demanded, "Are you good guys?"
Justine chuckled. "If we were bad guys, we'd have eaten you already!"
Lynette looked up at them with her big solemn brown eyes and pleaded, "Please take me bak to my papa, bak to Salamandastron. You know where zat is, rite?
"Of course we do," Callista assured Lynette. "Don't worry about it, little scoundrel, we'll bring you home as fast as we can."
Justine agreed. "Right then, Callista, you lead the way."
Callista smiled disarmingly and said, "My brain is a little fuzzy right now, and I can't exactly remember where Salamandastron is. Perhaps a little of your best cooking will spice my brain up a little bit more."
Callista immediately woke up at the mention of breakfast and rushed to the tree stump where Justine was preparing potato salads for her friend and herself. Without saying "Good morning", she wolfed down the entire bowl of salad set before her and asked with her mouth full, "Mmfh?"
Justine answered, "Sorry, no seconds. We're running out of potatoes.I don't know why every night I find some missing."
Suddenly Callista pushed Justine and herself flat down on the ground into a bush as a spear whizzed past her ear.
A gruff voice about 5 feet away questioned menacingly, "Who's eatin' away mewily on my tewitowy?"
Justine peeked out of the bush and saw that the animal was actually just a baby badger playing around with some blunt spears. She cleared her throat and growled deeply, "Get outta here, ya lil badgey, or we'll roast ya and toast ya and eat ya chubby arms and legs!"
The badger babe swallowed visibly, then puffed out her chest and shouted back, "I not afwaid of you nasty vermin! I gonna fight to da death like my papa told me to! Eulaliaaaaaaaaaaa!
The two friends rushed out of the bush just in time to save the badger from falling into the stream nearby.
"Hold your horses, there, little one," Justine grunted as she tried to stop the badger from waving her spear crazily about.
Callista studied the young badger's face and stated solemnly, "This scoundrel is Lord Snowstripe's daughter, Lynette. From all the tales I've heard, this little rascal has perfect aim, especially with spears."
Lynette looked up at the girls and demanded, "Are you good guys?"
Justine chuckled. "If we were bad guys, we'd have eaten you already!"
Lynette looked up at them with her big solemn brown eyes and pleaded, "Please take me bak to my papa, bak to Salamandastron. You know where zat is, rite?
"Of course we do," Callista assured Lynette. "Don't worry about it, little scoundrel, we'll bring you home as fast as we can."
Justine agreed. "Right then, Callista, you lead the way."
Callista smiled disarmingly and said, "My brain is a little fuzzy right now, and I can't exactly remember where Salamandastron is. Perhaps a little of your best cooking will spice my brain up a little bit more."