The Secret Promise by Paula Harrison

Author:Paula Harrison [Harrison, Paula]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780545509268
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2013-05-01T07:00:00+00:00

After checking on the deer in the shed and finding it some more food, Emily took the girls back to her room in the West Tower. The room had been cleaned and the sofa scattered with soft red cushions.

“Hey! Ally left slippers out for all of us,” said Emily, wiggling her toes into red slippers dotted with diamonds. “Almost like she knew we were coming.”

She handed out the jeweled slippers to her friends: green to Jaminta, yellow to Lulu, and blue to Clarabel. Then she took one look at Clarabel’s sad face and sent an order down to the kitchen for hot chocolate.

“I’m just thinking of the little deer,” explained Clarabel. “What if he’s missing his friends? What if there are more traps out there that we didn’t see?”

Emily flopped down onto the sofa. “I know,” she said. “I’ve been wondering the same thing. But Ally will help us find out.”

There was a knock on the door, and Ally came in with four steaming mugs of hot chocolate and a plate of golden pancakes.

“This is Ally, everyone,” said Emily.

“Your Majesties!” said Ally, smiling. “I saw you walking across the garden a few minutes ago, so I sent another maid to get those slippers. Is there anything else that you need?”

“We need your help, Ally,” Emily told her, taking a big slurp of hot chocolate. “We need to learn how to be ninjas.”

“Emily!” warned Ally. “That part of my life was a long time ago, and I don’t talk about it these days.”

“You can trust these princesses. Honestly, you can!” promised Emily, and the other princesses nodded.

“Do you know lots of ninja moves?” Lulu asked eagerly.

“Did it take you long to learn them?” added Jaminta.

Ally pulled up a chair, her face serious. “Learning ninja skills takes lots of patience and hours of practice. But why do you want to know? What do you want to be ninjas for?”

“We think that someone’s trying to trap the deer in Mistberg Forest without King Gudland finding out about it,” said Emily.

“But why?” Clarabel burst out. “Why are they doing it?”

“Maybe they want to catch a stag to take his antlers?” said Lulu. “That kind of thing used to happen where I live. Poachers came to trap animals for horns or antlers. We’ve driven those people out of our kingdom now.”

“So you want to find out if there are more traps?” asked Ally.

“Yes,” said Emily. “We also want to find out who’s leaving them.”

Ally tightened her lips. “They’re probably doing it at night so that no one sees them. It’ll be dangerous out there.”

“But if we can move around the forest without anyone seeing us, we’ll be fine,” said Emily. “We need to be ready to go out there tonight. Tomorrow’s our last day here, the day of the Grand Ball. After that it will be too late. You will help us, won’t you, Ally?”

Ally smiled. “Well, Your Majesties!” she said with a bow. “It just so happens that you’ve asked exactly the right person.”

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