The Story Pirates Present: Digging Up Danger by StoryPirates & Jacqueline West
Author:StoryPirates & Jacqueline West [StoryPirates & West, Jacqueline]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Plus PDF Workbook, Juvenile Fiction, Mysteries & Detective Stories, Ghost Stories, Humorous
ISBN: 9781635650921
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2019-01-15T05:00:00+00:00
Her mother gave a laugh with all the air squashed out of it. âDo I think this story might be true? Perhaps, in all the alternate universes and infinite timelines that theoretically exist, there is one where eating a berry turns a person into a dog. But I donât believe that we are in it.â
Tommy exhaled hard. âFine. Weâll prove it. Thereâs enough moonlight. Come on, Aunt Camila.â
Tommy and Mrs. Carrollâwho looked extremely reluctantâheaded out the workroom door. Moggie stayed beside Eliza.
âIâm not sure what weâre waiting for,â said Elizaâs mother after a moment. âBecause we are not actually waiting for our hosts to turn into dogs.â
Eliza didnât answer. A funny, tickling feeling ran up the backs of her arms. Was it a spectral presence? Mere anticipation? Before she could be sure, Moggie jumped up with a loud Woof! She barreled out the workroom door, with Eliza and her mother tagging after.
The shop lights had been turned out again. The Stahls followed Moggie through the darkness, around a rack of orchids, past the cacti, toward the silvery splotch of moonlight that fell through the front windows.
There, on the moonlit floor, one draped in baggy pajama pants and the other swamped in a pink silk robe, were two golden-eyed dogs. The dog in the robe was a Boston terrier, petite and bright faced. The dog in the pajama pants was the shaggy brown mutt Eliza and Moggie had chased through the streets the night before.
Eliza gasped.
Moggie bounded toward the dogs, snuffling their faces and bumping them off their paws.
âAll right, Tommy and Camila.â Elizaâs mother folded her arms. âI donât know where youâre hiding, or why youâve decided to play this prank,â she said loudly and sternly. âI would guess itâs to cover up your own illegal activities involving the smuggled and now missing plant, but whatever the reason, Iââ
âOh, itâs not a prank, Rachel,â said the Boston terrier. Mrs. Carrollâs voice sounded almost natural coming out of the dogâs little mouth. âAs I said, I know it seems impossible. But itâs real.â
âScience and magic,â mumbled the brown mutt.
Elizaâs mother let out a sound that Eliza had never heard her make before. âButâ¦molecularâ¦â She sputtered. âCanâtâ¦physiologicalâ¦berriesâ¦â
Eliza took a steadying grip on her motherâs arm. âLook at the evidence, Mom,â she whispered. âJust look.â
At that moment, a bulldog in shiny basketball shorts came trundling through the room.
âWell, looks like our secretâs out, huh?â it boomed in Mr. Carrollâs voice. âHello, Eliza and Rachel. I was checking the greenhouse, accidentally hit a beam of moonlight, and bangâdog town.â The bulldog chuckled. âNo sign or smell of any intruders, though. Whoever was here is gone.â
Elizaâs mother made a choking sound.
Eliza patted her mom on the back, hoping her smile wasnât too smug. The natural and the supernatural were coming together right in front of their eyes!
âWellâ¦,â her mother choked out at last. âI suppose my reaction doesnât matter. These are the conditions. Weâll simply have to function within them.â She swayed dizzily. âThe most
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