12 Bear-Mama

12. BEAR-MAMA Meanwhile the Deadly Shadow slunk through the door of the dungeon that Camicazi had left open. You couldn't see it of course. But the Sniff! Sniff! Sniff!-ing noise went snuffling across the floor like the sludgy trail of an invisible snail, and a light wind blew through the centre of the dungeon. The Deadly Shadow's talons were already out. Its broken heart was pure steel. The Red-Rage had so clouded its invisible eyes that they had almost become visible with hatred. The snuffling stopped at Hiccup's bed. The bed was empty. The Shadow gave a surprised snort and its talons raked through the remains of straw and bedding. Nothing there either. The boy must be somewhere else! The Deadly Shadow was so steaming mad that for one moment he turned visible and you could see the actual smoke that was drifting out of all six of his ears. The Shadow silently exploded what remained of the bed, and it stalked out the door again on furious silent tiptoes. And woe betide Hiccup if the creature ever found him… Two minutes later, Hiccup and the Bog-Burglar

Escape Artists arrived back at the door of the dungeon. 'What has happened here?' whispered Hiccup, looking at his bed, which seemed, quite literally, to have exploded, sending a rain of straw all round it in every direction. 'Wow,' said Camicazi. 'You're a restless sleeper.' Hiccup started trying to tidy it up. 'You'd better get a move on, guys, if you want to escape with Eggingarde before morning.' So Camicazi and the Bog-Burglars were about to do their normal routine of bundling up Eggingarde in her blanket while she was still asleep, but Hiccup wouldn't let them. 'You might worry her,' said Hiccup. So Hiccup woke her up gently. 'Ssh,' said Hiccup, 'these are some friends of mine, Eggingarde, and they're going to help you to escape back to your Tribe and your mother.' Eggingarde looked at him with her big solemn eyes, and then she gave a huge, gap-toothed smile. 'Do you think I have a mother?' smiled Eggingarde.

'I'm sure you do,' said Hiccup, 'and I bet she's been really missing you.' And he re-did the buttons on her bearsuit so they were in the right buttonholes, so she'd look her best for her mother. 'Camicazi?' whispered Hiccup. 'I think maybe you should deliver Eggingarde back to her Tribe, the Northern Wanderers. You'll find them up north somewhere, wandering about. Now that,' he added craftily, 'now that is going be a really dangerous mission, because you have to go through Dragon Rebellion Territory to get up there…' 'OK,' Camicazi whispered back. Hiccup looked at her suspiciously. It was unlike Camicazi to be quite so obedient. 'Bye then, Camicazi.' 'Bye,' said Camicazi, widening her big blue eyes innocently. 'Goodbye, Eggingarde,' whispered Hiccup. 'Goodbye, Hiccup,' Eggingarde whispered back. 'Goodbye, Stormfly,' said Toothless, doing three elaborate somersaults in the air to show off, nearly knocking himself out when he bumped into a pillar in the process, and then struggling to re-arrange himself in the air to look glamorous. 'Goodbye, Toothless the Outcast,' cooed the

Mood-Dragon, batting her eyelashes coquettishly at the slightly dazed Toothless as she followed Camicazi and the Bog-Burglar Escape Artists and Eggingarde tiptoeing out the room. And that was how Eggingarde made her escape from the Amber Slavelands, and from this story, back to the safe warm arms of her mother, Bear-mama, (who had indeed been missing her), back to the magical stories of her scary Wanderer grandmother, and back to the admiration of her little brother Bearcub, whom she had never met. OK, so at least Camicazi is going to be all right and out of danger for a while, thought Hiccup dozily. It'll take the Bog-Burglar Escape Artists quite a long time to locate the Northern Wanderer Tribe. 'I wonder who did this?' whispered the Wodensfang, looking at the rags and straw strewn all over the place, his ears doing that going-purpleand-indicating-danger thing. 'Wodensfang, you're paranoid,' said Hiccup, yawning. 'It's only paranoia,' whispered the Wodensfang, 'if things aren't out to get you…' But Hiccup and Toothless were already asleep.

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