Chapter Five
Carrie stopped her car to search for her phone. She wanted to tell Dave that she’d escaped with her pets and they were all okay. She also wanted to tell him they were coming to stay for a while. But she couldn’t find her phone anywhere. She must have dropped it in her rush to grab Toodles and Rogue and escape from the placktoids.
Carrie pulled out into the traffic once more, telling Rogue to sit still. He remained over-excited, apparently having no idea what he’d just escaped. Toodles was on the back seat in her carrier, her deep orange eyes staring between the bars.
“We’re going to see Uncle Dave,” Carrie told her pets. “We’re going to live with him until it’s safe to go home, so you must both be very good. Which means, Toodles...” Carrie glanced into the back seat through
