Chapter 8
IT WAS STILL DARK when Nellie came back to the warehouse to deliver her haul. There were now not as many of them, and breakfast was a sad affair. The children wanted to find “their” dragon, but Mina told them to stay inside the warehouse.
“We don’t want to lose all of you, too,” she said.
“But Nellie is going out,” Anneke protested.
Nellie said, “I am going to look for a safe place for us all to stay, so that the guards don’t come back again.”
“Then can we have Boots back?”
“He is a wild creature. I don’t know where he is or what he’s doing, and I can’t make him come back.”
“But he can come back if he wants?”
“Of course he can.”
“You’re not angry with him?”
“No, I’m not.”
“Mama is angry with him.”
Nellie looked around the warehouse, but Agatha had gone out to get more
