2 The Feather

CHAPTER 2

The Feather The next day Lucas and Clara went berry picking on Primlox, the island of fairies. The fairies grew the sweetest fruit in the kingdom of Wrenly. Clara filled her bucket to the top with black raspberries. "How many have you got?" asked Clara. Lucas wiped his mouth with the back of his hand. His fingers and mouth had purple berry stains. Clara shook her head. "Did you collect any?" she cried. Lucas blushed. "A few," he said sheepishly.

Clara peeked into his bucket. "Cook will need more berries than that to make his pies," she said. "Let's pick some more, but we'd better hurry or you'll be late for your music lesson again." Plink! Plink! Plink! Lucas and Clara picked berries and dropped them into his nearly empty bucket. "Well, I don't care if I'm on time," said Lucas. "I hate music lessons."

Clara stopped picking and threw a berry at Lucas. It pinged his cheek and fell to the ground. "Hey!" said Lucas, wiping his face clean of the berry stains. "Do you want to get in trouble again?" Clara asked. "No," said Lucas, flinging a berry back at his friend. "But I still don't want to take music lessons." Just as an all-out berry war was starting, they heard a great flapping of wings. Ruskin, who had been napping in the crook of a nearby tree, began to growl. He jumped down from the tree and scampered into the underbrush.

"Ruskin!" Lucas shouted. He and Clara left their buckets and raced after him. Ruskin stood on the other side of the thicket and squawked at the sky.

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