Mouse Mission by Prudence Breitrose

Author:Prudence Breitrose
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Disney Book Group

The night would probably have been beastie-free had it not been for Megan’s fame among mice. There was no way that the members of the Buckford Hall clan would pass up a chance like this—having the most famous human in the world (among mice) in their midst. Yes, with their human here for three or four days most of them could expect to catch a glimpse of her, but why wait? Left to themselves, almost all the 1,310 mice in the clan would have rushed up through the walls right then, to see Megan sleeping. But as their leaders knew, any mass swarming of mice can be sadly misinterpreted, even by the most enlightened of humans. So the Director of Pastimes set up a roster, with groups of ten mice at a time taking off from Mouse Hall at five-minute intervals, each group to observe Miss Megan for five minutes precisely.

It worked fine for the first six hundred mice, but at two in the morning Megan stirred. She looked around the room by the dim light that still came from the fireplace and she would have drifted back to sleep if one of the tapestries hadn’t moved. It was the scariest of them, one that showed a grinning satyr, half man and half horse, its spear raised in a fierce attack against a terrified stag—frozen in time, until now, when the creature seemed to move in Megan’s direction, its eyes looking straight at her, its spear aimed at her heart.

When Trey had first made Contact last year, he had been afraid that Megan would scream at the sight of a mouse on her pillow. Sometimes he’d imagined what it might have sounded like if she’d really let loose. But never in his imagination was her scream as loud as the one she came out with now. He and Julia both leapt up from their sleeping positions in a wild scramble, ready for battle, peering around for whatever was endangering their human.

Joey came charging in from the next room to save Megan from wild boars or satyrs or anything else. He switched on the light so that now they could both watch as ten mice shuffled out from behind the tapestry, getting a much better view of Miss Megan than the previous groups, a view that actually had Miss Megan sitting up in bed and laughing.

One of the mice sheepishly explained in MSL why they were there, but Trey didn’t translate. No point telling Megan about the roster for gazing at her, because she got quite embarrassed sometimes when mice treated her like a superstar.

Instead he said, “It’s the beastie patrol. They take turns all night to make sure you’re safe.”

And with that, Megan could go back to sleep.

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