Chapter 5
NELLIE THEN TOLD the dragon to stay up in the hayloft and told the children to cover him with anything they could find.
But she was very unhappy about it, and so were the other women. If the dragon had gone back into the box, she could easily have hidden it. Now she had to hide a full-size dragon and the incriminating box that had been stolen from the church.
Nellie wondered whether, if Prince Bruno were here and he was still alive, he could control this creature. How did one tell a dragon what to do in absence of its master?
Some of the women, led by Jantien, were hiding all their meagre possessions in the straw and various other places in the warehouse.
There must have been some earlier disagreement because Jantien kept looking sideways at Zelda. “I don’t care what she say
