Chapter 4

Chapter 4 "What kind of b-b-b-bone?" asked Poppy, taking a giant backward step away from their discovery. "Dinosaur," announced Sugar. "Female. T. rex. leg bone." "I think we need more infor—" said Dirt. "Let's vote on it," interrupted Sugar. "Here and now with no passwords. Who says it's the leg bone of female T. rex?" "I do," said Sweetie. "I do," said Poppy. "I do," said Sugar. "And there you have it." "That's not the kind of thing you vote on, Sugar," said Dirt. "Who thinks Dirt is unconstitutional?" asked Sugar, raising her wing.

"I do," said Sweetie. "I do," said Poppy. "I do," said Sugar. Dirt sat on her bottom, crossed her legs, closed her eyes, and took a long, deep breath. "If it is a bone, then we need to treat it very, very carefully." "Dirt's right," said Sugar. "That T. rex bone has probably been here since the meteor struck a hundred years ago, wiping out the dinosaurs and all the cavemen." "Cave people, Sugar," Sweetie corrected her. "Cave people." "Um, Sugar, a moment?" Dirt pulled her sister to the side. "Before you get Poppy and Sweetie too excited, I think a timeline might be helpful here." Dirt opened her notebook and drew a timeline showing the millions of years between the dinosaur extinction and the existence of cave people.

"I think you're forgetting something, Dirt," said Sugar. "What's that?" "Unicorns," said Sugar. "Unicorns aren't extinct," Dirt explained. "They never existed." "Then how do we know what they looked like?" asked Sugar. "Well... because...," Dirt began. "Um, that's not really a fair question...."

"Sounds like something we should vote on," said Sugar. "You can't vote unicorns into existence!" declared Dirt. "As I was saying," Sugar announced, ignoring Dirt's protest and turning back to Poppy and Sweetie. "The shelter is now also an important scientific-discovery site, and the spoons are no longer the proper tools for excavation." "That much I agree with," said Dirt. "So," continued Sugar, "we're going to need the power tools and the blowtorch from the Connolly's garage—" "Sugar," said Dirt, "for starters, we do not have permission to go into the Connolly's garage." "If I remember, avoiding the Connolly's garage is what cost you the vote last time," said Sugar. "You might want to reconsider." "Sugar, we need to treat the bone carefully," said Dirt.

"Dirt has a point," agreed Sugar. "Grab all the brushes you can find in the house— paintbrushes, toothbrushes, hairbrushes," said Sugar. "But NOT the round yellow brush in the bathroom!"

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