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They had got their coffee, sat down and were now ready to hear the tale of hoe Ellie came to be on Will and Alyss's front porch.
Ellie started in a shaky voice,
"I had just got home from a party for my friend who was turning twelve, we drove home in our car a-"
"What's a car?" Crowley interrupted
"It's a vehicle that you drive, it has four wheels and it takes you places, it runs on fuel." Ellie replied as if it explained everything.
"Ok…" Crowley said, still not quite sure what she meant.
"Now if you don't mind I will continue with the story.
We were driving home in a…car…"
As she said car she looked meaningful at crowly who had found a sudden interest in the state of his boots.
"And we had just got home when we heard a plane, a plane is a flying machine that carries people in it to other places."
Ellie had hurried on before Crowley could ask the obvious question of what a plane was. The other stared at her as if her face had suddenly disappeared, not comprehending. Ellie went on anyway…
"little did we know it was a russian fighter plane full of unwelcome nuclea bombs, just waiting to explode"
The others had learnt by now not to ask what something was, Ellie started to tear up as she got to a part of the story she didn't like telling, she pulled out the ripped and tattered photo of her happy family of three, that was no more…
"Mum shouted as a small dot had started to fall from the plane *sniff* and pushed me under a solid concrete *sniff* *sniff* cave, just before *sniff* t..th…the bomb hit the ground and exploded *sniff* m…my p…p…parents didn't survive, nor did anyone else *sniff* in a 100 meter radius except me"
There was an ominous silence, Ellie hung her head, trying to hide the tears that were freely running down her face. The others didn't fully understand what had happened, but they did understand the grief in her eyes. Nobody could have missed it. Ellie continued bravely, fighting back the tears that were threatening to fall down her face.
"I was left alone to forge for food and shelter for two days *sniff* then *sniff* something strange happened, a big purple circle seemed to pull me out of my world and into yours. And that's my story"
She looked down at the photo again, and smiled. But it was a sad smile with no humor in it, it was a remembering smile, a knowing smile, a smile that would break your heart.
"Well, that's quite the story." Will said, Ellie nodded.
"Where will I stay?" Ellie blurted out the question with much more force than she would have liked, it was a question that had been nagging at her mind ever since she had been at the little cabin.
At this, the three women looked up, in truth, they had been discussing this while Ellie had been sleeping. They had come up with a solution, but it only went as far as three weeks, from there on it was guess work. Alyss nudged Cassandra.
"We-el, we had discussed it and it was decided that you would stay a week with me and Horace, then another week with Alyssm and Will then the last week with Pauline and Halt, at that time we should have been able to figure out a place for you to stay permanently, if thats ok with you?"
The three men Cassandra had mentioned in perfect unison shot their stairs of pure horror from Halt's excitement in Will's and puzzlement in Horace's. Ellie nodded her head vigorously.
"Yes please, i would love to do that, anyway i can't get back and even if I could,Ii'd have nothing to do and nowhere to go."
"Good, but I hope you can go this afternoon because that's when Horace and I are leaving for Castle Araluen." Cassandra said in a business-like tone…
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