15 TINY!

CHAPTER 15 TINY! On Saturday, Mom and I worked hard with the team of volunteers planting the native plants, including all the berries. But I didn't mind the work. I love plants, and even better than that—the next day I was going to see TINY!!! I hadn't seen him since I helped heal his hoof. "Do you think he'll be even bigger?" I whispered to Mom as we patted down the soil around a thimbleberry we'd just planted. "I suspect so." Mom laughed. "Though that's hard to imagine, isn't it?" I grinned. I could hardly wait. After we got home and washed up, I did my best to keep busy. I read books, brushed Sassafras, checked on my garden, and finally went to sleep. I dreamed of unicorns, obviously.

The next morning, Mom and Sass and I took the car to the new berry patch. As we turned the corner and it came into view, I pressed my whole face against the window. "WHOAAA!" I said. Six ginormous unicorns towered over everything. I squinted at their hooves. Oh! There was our tiny Pip! We parked, and Sassafras and I burst out of the car and ran over to Tiny, who was, in fact, taller. "ZOEY AND CAT!!!" Tiny boomed. "Tiny!" I hugged his enormous leg while Sassafras lovingly rubbed his face on another leg. Tiny tilted his head one way and said, "TINY'S MOM AND DAD!" and then tilted it the other way and said, "TINY'S SISTER AND BROTHERS." "It's so nice to meet you all!" I shouted up. Each

member of Tiny's family took turns lowering their heads so I could pet them gently on the nose. "UNICORNS HAPPY TO HELP," Tiny said. "MUCH GRUMPY IN THE FOREST. ZOEY FIX IT?" "I sure hope so. Let's get these grumplets out of our forest!" The unicorns nodded. The gust of wind knocked me down, and Pip and Sassafras went rolling. "OOPS. SORRY!" said the unicorns. Pip brushed himself off, and Sassafras gave a good shake. "Let's stick to 'yes' or 'no' instead of nodding, yeah?" Pip said. "YES," said the unicorns. "OK," Pip continued, "Zoey and I are going to make a trail of berries from the edge of the forest over to this new patch of berries. Once we've set that down, we need you to shout about how good the berries are. Hopefully the grumplets will come running toward your voices, find the berry trail, and follow it to our new field of berries. Got it?" "YES," said the unicorns. Mom handed me and Pip each a container of

berries. We didn't want to use up the wild ones growing on the bushes for this. Then we laid out a trail of berries leading from the edge of the forest over to the new patch of berries. I crossed my fingers, whispered, "please let this work," and then nodded up to the unicorns as everyone on the ground covered their ears with their hands. "NEW GOOD BERRIES!" shouted one. "MANY KINDS OF YUMMY," shouted a second. "WE HAVE MUCH HAPPY OVER HERE!" added Tiny. We waited and waited. The unicorns used their loudest voices to let the whole forest know about the new berries. But where were the grumplets?

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