The Girl and the Moa - Chapter 4 - by Quillian

 Chapter 4

I woke up and quietly crawled out of the hut that I share with my dad. Next, I grabbed some cooked fish and ran to the creek. On the way there I spotted some fern shoots. I walked over to them, checked for bugs, and grabbed them for later. Then I kept running. 

Finally, I got there and spotted Moona. Panting heavily, I said, “I think….. I know…..how ……to make them…. stop fighting.” 

“How?” Moona asked. 

     I said, “We are going to trick my tribe into thinking your tribe is magical and can defeat my tribe easily. Or we talk to your chief and have her and my dad have a meeting.”

     “Wait, hold up. Your dad is your chief? That makes you basically a princess!”

     “Yes, I know, but it makes it really irritating to sneak off,” I said.

     “Okay. If we talk to my chief and arrange a meeting, then won’t my chief tell your dad that we are friends?” Moona said.

     “Yes, she would, except we will tell her to keep our friendship a secret,” I said. “So do you think we should go with the meeting as plan A? Or should we go with the tricking my tribe into thinking your tribe is magical as plan A?”

     Moona said, “I think that we should go with the trick as plan A.”

     I said, “If we do that, I have to go home and start trying to trick my tribe and you have to go home and get your tribe to wear something that makes them look magical.”

 “Tomorrow we should meet at the creek and see if your tribe is getting tricked,” said Moona.

"Ok," I said.