Isabella, Darren, Joey, Lilac, Christopher, and Emilie walked slowly home from school. They lived quite close to Prufrock Prep. And they always walked home from school. Today, their backpacks were shoved full of things that made no sense to what they had learned today. Things about fires, and volunteers, and family, and some tidbit in Lilac's about tattoo's. As they walked down the street, they discussed, a word which here means talked about in a professional manner, what they were going to do in their huge rooms in Quagmire-Baudelaire Manor.
"I'm going to do some drawings of those fires in my book." Darren told the others. At an age of 14, Darren, Isabella, or Bella, and Joey Quagmire were already deciding the thing they liked best, and Darren, loved to draw.
"Yea, well I'm going to go and finish sewing up my new bed curtains." Bella said. She, loved to sew, and knit, and do other crafts like that.
"I'm going to write this story I've been thinking up all day..." Joey, the quieter of the triplets said. He was a writer. If you gave him a pen and paper, he could write all day.
"I'm going to take care of the plants in my indoor greenhouse!" Lilac told the others. Lilac Baudelaire, the eldest of the Baudelaire children, at an age of 15, was starting to be interested in things other than her plants, but, they were still most important besides her family.
"I think I'm going to go and explore the basement and attic's secret passages again..." Christopher, or Chris, Baudelaire added. He was an explorer, and at age 13that was his favorite thing to do, explore the manor for passages.
"I'm going to play with my animals." Emilie Baudelaire said. She was 11 and loved hanging out with her sister and family friends. Her skill was animals. She loved everything about them, and had learned how to take care of the 20+ animals she had, including, but not limited to, 3 dogs, 4 cats, a hamster, and 6 horses.
Approaching the house, they saw that, there was no house. It was in flames, and they threw down their backpacks. They all rushed to their rooms, which was on the side of the house not yet on fire, to retrieve whatever they could. Their parents were not anywhere in site, and they scrambled about the manor.
After they got everything they could from their rooms, they spread it out in the abandoned lot across the street. Darren had managed to save 3 sketch books, his cyan commonplace book, and a box of pencils, plus a blanket and food from his mini-fridge. Bella had managed to save her sewing box, three projects she'd been working on and some clothes, blankets, and photos. Joey saved his 5 books, pens, his favorite book series, and some bottles of water, plus a stray cat of Emilie's. Lilac saved 6 plants and some greenhouse panels, plus a water hose, three buckets, and some candy she found in a drawer. Chris brought some heirlooms he'd found in the passages, plus his maps of his passages, pencils, paper, his pocket knife, and "To Kill A Mockingbird". Emilie, however, managed to somehow save all of her animals, and manage to get food for them, and some saddles, leashes, and handbooks.
"Well..." Lilac said, "We'd better get going if we plan to get anywhere..."
The others nodded in agreement.