Secrets

". . .a rug made out of alfredo sauce."

"Yuck!" Fennec said. Kitty started to climb up the closest staircase and jumped off the very top.

"Look at me, I'm flying," Kitty said, flapping her front legs. She was almost on the ground when she grabbed onto a hook and grabbed Laura before Laura could eat the alfredo rug.

"Phew!" Kitty said with a grin. Fennec saw something out the window that was chasing an animal. She turned away and then when she turned back, the animal that was being chased was dead. Fennec ran out the door.

"Ahhh!" she yelled when the animal saw her. "Kitty!" she called, saying it as loud as she could.

Kitty gasped from inside. Kitty saw that Fennec gasped too. "It can talk!" Fennec yelled.

"I didn't hear anything," Kitty said.

"It whispered," Fennec said. "You couldn't hear."

Fennec ran behind a tree really quickly and got a net. She ran back out and when the tiny animal spotted her, she swinged the net where it was about to jump and it caught the animal in the net.

"Caught me," the little animal whispered.

"I'm coming in," Fennec yelled to Kitty.

"Fennec safe," Laura said in baby voice of course.

"Fennec, why are you bringing that in?" Kitty said.

"Come on, what's the worst that could happen," Fennec said. "Hi," Fennec said to the little creature once she got inside.

"Who are you and what are you?" Kitty said. The creature looked very fancy but also very deadly too. The creature was very silent.

"This is like the tale," Fennec said.

"What tail?" Kitty said. "I only see your tail, Laura's tail, and my tail somehow."

"The tale of her," Fennec said.

"The tail of who?" Kitty said.

"The dart frog of course," Fennec said.

"What dart frog?" Kitty said.

"The girl dart frog," Fennec said.

"What girl dart frog?" Kitty said.

"Goo goo gaga," said Laura.

Kitty said, "She doesn't even know about this tail you're talking about Fennec. She's just a baby. She doesn't know anything, only some stuff."

"I guess I'll tell you the tale," Fennec said. "I'm starting now. Her belly and feet are like a crystal. Her eyes are yellow like the sun. But outside of those yellow eyes there is green. Her legs are fancy fancy dancy, many colors: purple, pink, blue all mixed together. When it blends together it's fancy dancy colors. Oh yes, oh yes she has spots you, that is the cue. She is hoppy. She's a froggy. Beware don't touch her, and you're dead. That's my tale."

Kitty said, "Uh..."

Laura said, "Uh..."

"What does the tale have to do with what we found; I mean you found?" said Kitty.

"The tale is what I found!" Fennec said.

"So hoppy and poison?" Kitty said.

"And it sure can dart," said Fennec.

"She's a poison dart frog!" Kitty yelled.

"You te me," Laura said.

It was a good thing that Fennec had brought the poison dart frog whose name happened to be Dart. A storm was brewing outside. It was a very good thing because any frog could not survive a storm this bad. It was something really good that was definitely not secret. But the stuff that was happening inside with the words was definitely secret.