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They weren’t taking Orion? No.
Oakley didn’t like that at all.
She tried to think about what todoas grandfather carried her down the stairs.
Toward thedownstairs.
Where he made the ladies go before they disappearedforever.
She didn’t want to go downstairs! She didn’t! That was where he killed the mommy ladies.
She wanted her mommy and Orion and Nanny. Not Grandfather. Never Grandfather. “I don’t want to go with you!”
“You don’t have achoice!You are my daughter now, and you will do as I say! Bonita is your mother now!”
He carried her into the dark stairs. Then down a long hallway. Past lots of scary looking rooms. There was smokey stuff.
It burned Oakley’s eyes and made her cry. Then they went up the stairs again.
And…there were cars there.
They were leaving.
Without Orion.
“No!”
Oakley had to bebrave.
She pretended she was a big mean dragon, and she had to save her little brother dragon from the bad fire.
And the bad, bad wizard.
Oakley put her face right by Grandfather’s neck.
And bit him.
Right on his uglyantiqueface.
As hard as she could.
Grandfather let her go.
She fell to the floor.
Oakley just ran.
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Crispin just kept walking.And walking and walking. She held Orion close, and ignored each rock and jab that went through her feet.
Crispin just kept walking.
Orion fell asleep on her shoulder. She must have dropped his stuffed doll a dozen times. Finally she slipped it into her shirt, into her sports bra.
It was important to him. It was all he was going to have left after the fire. The fire would erase everything he had ever loved, except that doll. She wasn’t going to let him lose that doll, too.
Crispin just kept walking.
