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THALIA POV

"You're my bird?" Thalia said, thinking this woman was crazy. "You're Miss Peregrine? You've got to be kidding me. How stupid do you think I am?"

"I do not think you're stupid at all, Miss Chapman. And no, I am not your bird, I am the bird who has been watching over you since your parents abandoned you in 1944," woman said. "And if you still don't believe me, watch this." She turned into a peregrine falcon. Not just any peregrine falcon, Thalia's peregrine falcon.

Isla's jaw dropped open. "You're really Miss Peregrine!" she whispered.

"Yes, yes, follow me. I know a place you can stay." Miss Peregrine turned around and limped to the bog.

Isla and Thalia exchanged nervous looks and followed her.

They walked single file, Miss Peregrine, Thalia, Isla. Miss Peregrine walked into a little cairn at the end of the bog, Thalia and Isla following close behind her.

"This is kinda creepy," Isla whispered to Thalia. Thalia nodded.

Miss Peregrine turned around and walked back out of the bog. When they emerged the weather was warm and sunny instead of the cold, gloomy weather Thalia was used to. They walked to a giant mansion with beautiful animal topiaries all around it. Miss Peregrine led them inside and called, "Miss Elephanta! Would you get us some tea?"

A pretty red-haired girl poked her head around a corner, cast a curious glance at Thalia and Isla, then nodded at Miss Peregrine and walked into the kitchen. They walked in after her and watched as she took of her black rubber gloves and put her hands on a tea kettle. The tea boiled and Thalia's eyes widened. "How did you do that?" she asked.

The girl smiled. "It's my peculiarity. Don't you have one?"

Thalia frowned. "Peculiarity...like how I turn into a fish?"

"You can turn into a fish?" the girl said. "I've never heard of anyone who could do that! It must be rare."

"That's fine now, Miss Elephanta," Miss Peregrine said. "No one enjoys over-boiled tea."

The girl obeyed, taking her hands off the jar and putting on her gloves. Isla stared at the red handprints still on the kettle.

"I'm Olive." Olive held her hand out to the girls. They shook it in turn. "What's your peculiarity?" Olive asked Isla.

"Same as Thalia's. I'm a mermaid too."

"Oh, a mermaid! I thought you actually turned into fish."

"My name's Isla, by the way."

"Isla and Thalia," Olive looked at Thalia. "That is your name?"

"Yes. Thalia Chapman," Thalia said.

"Come meet everyone else!" Olive gave them their tea and hurried outside. A boy was playing football (soccer in the US) with what looked like clothes with nobody inside them.

"That's Hugh" Olive pointed to the boy, "and Millard." she pointed to the clothes.

"Is he invisible?" asked Isla.

"Of course!" answered Olive.

"Millard pass the ball!" Hugh yelled at Millard.

"Stop cheating Hugh!" Millard grumbled as a swarm of bees flew out of Hugh's mouth. Hugh kicked the ball and it landed in the mouth of a dinosaur topiary.

"That's a foul!" Millard said.

"No it wasn't!" Hugh looked at a blond boy sitting under a tree. "Ref?"

The boy got up and walked over to them. "If you can't play fair than I do wish you wouldn't play at all."

"Do you know what a referee is?" asked Hugh.

The boy ignored him and walked over to the girls. "Sorry you had to see that," he said. "I'm Horace." He shook Thalia's hand and she blushed.

Horace sat under a tree and started to read.

Olive pointed to a girl with dirty blond hair that was braided neatly into plaits. "This is Fiona," she said. Fiona kneeled on the ground and a gigantic carrot started growing. A young girl with curly brown hair and a boy with black hair walked over. The girl grunted as she tugged the carrot from the ground and dragged it inside. "That's Bronwyn and Victor." Olive led them over to where a pretty little girl with perfectly curled blond hair was playing with some kids in really weird costumes. "Claire and the twins."

A blond teenage girl ran over to Olive. "Have you seen Enoch? It's almost time for me to rescue the baby squirrel!" She looked at Isla and Thalia. "Who are they?" she asked.

"Thalia and Isla. They're new." Olive looked at Thalia and Isla. "That's Emma."

"Will you please find Enoch for me?" Emma asked Olive.

"No, I'll just hold the rope," Olive answered.

"Okay, You know what to do," Emma said as a tiny baby squirrel plopped into her outstretched hand. Olive tied a rope around Emma's waist. Emma smiled at Isla and Thalia. "You're going to love this." She bent down and carefully unbuckled her strange shoes. She floated into the air and helped the squirrel into its home. Olive pulled on the rope and Emma came down. She put on her shoes as Olive held her on the ground.

"That's incredible," Isla breathed.

Emma smiled at her. "Come inside for and get washed up for supper."

"Already?" Thalia asked, surprised. "But it's only five o'clock!"

Emma chuckled "The fact that we're not all eight years old seems to have alluded Miss Peregrine."

The girls walked inside. How lucky I am, Thalia thought as Emma led her to the bathroom to be washed up, to have a place like this to live in.

That's chapter two! I hope you enjoyed! Bye!