We walked to the school

We done it

We was walking to the shop

I did walk to the shop

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Something was crawling up the side of the skyship’s wooden hull! Ty, whose face paled, shrank back and ducked down behind the tiller but Mariana rushed to the edge and peered into the gloom below.

She can just make out something or somebody scrabbling up the side of the ship. It is quite small and had green eyes. It pauses and stares back up at her. “It’s a baby dragon,” she called, “and it’s hurt.” Mariana, whose brow frowns with concentration, reaches down to grip its outstretched paw and pulls it onto the deck. “It will be hurt in the storm.”

The dragonlet is shivering with cold and whimpering. Ty dashes off to fetch a ship’s blanket, wondering anxiously if the dragonlet’s mother was pleased to know that they would help her baby. Mariana will speak calmly to the baby, hoping that Captain O’Shea will not take a dim view of what they have done!