Lily dragged Ollie and Emma off the airship and down on to the ground where they had landed, not minutes before. The mountains were casting shadows all around ,but one seemed to be moving quickly towards them. Trembling with fear, Emma took a step back from Ollie and Lily. Emma tried to say what she had seen ,but she couldn’t open her mouth to let the words out, she was frozen in fear for what seemed a lifetime. Eventually, she managed to start stuttering random words, which made Ollie and Lily turn around. They couldn’t work out what she was trying to say but she was pointing towards a moving shadow. ‘Ahhh’ screamed Ollie. On the other hand, however, Lily seemed to be running towards the moving shadow shouting back to them ‘Come on you two, let’s go and see what it is!’ The shadow was growing with every heart beat, Lily was getting even more excited. Before she could moved any further, the shadow had swooped down and rested on her arm.
‘It’s an eagle, a beautiful white eagle.’ bellowed Lily.
‘Are you mad?’ yelped Emma.
Emma was pacing up and down, with all thoughts running through her mind. Emma started shouting at Lily ‘what are we doing here? Why are you holding an eagle? Why are we not at home?’ Lily didn’t listen to Emma, she was so intrigued by the beauty of the eagle, that was now resting on her arm. Where had the eagle come from she thought, had it come for a reason, was it delivering a message to them? Lily couldn’t see any notes attached to the eagle and wondered if could simply be there to guide them home?
As Ollie and Emma wouldn’t go to her, Lily sprinted back to them with the eagle by her side and lots more questions racing round her head.