Smoke Mountain (2011)
“It spun around and pelted back across the clearing to the others, who were also screaming and running in circles.
Toklo rolled out of the den and flailed his paws in the air. A long green sack was wrapped around one leg, and a shiny silver bowl was stuck on one front paw. He jumped and danced and wriggled, trying to shake them off.
‘Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!’ the flat-faces screamed again, and all four of them ran off into the forest. Lusa could hear them crashing and thumping through the trees in the ...direction of the BlackPath.
‘Nice work, Toklo,’ Kallik barked.
‘You looked terrifying!’ Lusa squeaked, bounding over to untangle Toklo from the flat-face things.
Toklo shook a strip of feathery white stuff from his shoulder. ‘We’d better leave before they come back with firesticks and more flat-faces,’ he said.
‘Did you see that?’ Kallik said. ‘They were afraid of you!’ ‘I think it was your ferocious, bewildered expression,’ Lusa teased. Her heart was still racing in her chest.MoreLess
Toklo rolled out of the den and flailed his paws in the air. A long green sack was wrapped around one leg, and a shiny silver bowl was stuck on one front paw. He jumped and danced and wriggled, trying to shake them off.
‘Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!’ the flat-faces screamed again, and all four of them ran off into the forest. Lusa could hear them crashing and thumping through the trees in the ...direction of the BlackPath.
‘Nice work, Toklo,’ Kallik barked.
‘You looked terrifying!’ Lusa squeaked, bounding over to untangle Toklo from the flat-face things.
Toklo shook a strip of feathery white stuff from his shoulder. ‘We’d better leave before they come back with firesticks and more flat-faces,’ he said.
‘Did you see that?’ Kallik said. ‘They were afraid of you!’ ‘I think it was your ferocious, bewildered expression,’ Lusa teased. Her heart was still racing in her chest.MoreLess
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