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“All clear.”
“It is not all clear. I just heard a voice,” she repeated.
“Checking now.”
She frowned, carefully looking, and I became silent. I didn’t know why I felt so panicked. It was a hospital, so maybe it was doctors. I couldn’t expect no one to be around. Hearing a soft mutter, I glanced around, and I saw a pair of eyes peeking out of the trash in the corner of the staircases.
“Thelma.” I stepped back but nodded at the trash can.
Immediately, she came up from behind me, and I could hear the guy upstairs running down the staircases.
“Come out with your hands up, right now!” Thelma yelled in Ersovian, holding a gun as she kicked the side of the trash can hard, causing three different shrieks.
What in the world? I thought as Layland made it down. With his gun drawn and now pointed to the trash can as well, Layland moved to stand in front of me.
“I said now!” Thelma yelled once more. “Last warning. Three. Two.”
“Wait!” The lid popped open, and a tiny young girl, maybe six or seven years old, with light-brown skin and a baseball cap, popped out with her hands up. “Sorry!” she yelled at the top of her lungs.
“We got ducks,” Thelma said into her mic as she put away her gun.
Layland put his weapon down.
“I’m not a duck,” the little girl said as Thelma helped her out of the trash bin and on to her feet before lifting out two other boys, one with brown hair and the other with blond. The moment they were on their feet, they glanced up at Thelma like she was a mountain, and their eyes went wide.
“What are you children doing here?” Thelma asked them. “Where are your parents?”
The boys trembled in fear. But the girl put her hands on her hips and stood tall. “I don’t have to tell you that. It’s not your stairs.”
Well, excuse me. I grinned.
“Actually, the hospital gave it to us while we were here. So you’re trespassing. If you don’t tell me where your parents are, I will send you to jail.”
“You can’t do that,” the girl said, unsure, then looked behind her at the boys, scared silent. “Can she do that?”
They shrugged.
Thelma pulled out her phone.
“Wait!” the boy with brown hair said. “We just wanted to see the queen.”
“The queen?” Thelma repeated.
“He means the future queen.” The girl crossed her arms. “My daddy works here, and I know she’s here!”
“I don’t think you heard right. We’ve been looking for days,” the brown-haired one muttered, annoyed. “Now, you’ve got us in trouble, Vicky.”
“It’s an adventure, Leo!” the girl, Vicky, snapped back at the browned-haired one, who I guessed was Leo. “You can’t find the treasure on the first day.”
“Guys...” the blond boy muttered, speaking for the first time and looking directly at me.
“We are not looking for treasure. We are looking for the queen,” Leo shot back at her.
“Guys...” the other boy said, still looking at me, trying to get his friends’ attention.
“A queen is a treasure, Leo,” Vicky said with her hand on her hips.
“GUYS!”
