"Why did you take another three? Are they for Yvonne, Elsa, and Rosie?" Euphie asked. I looked at her askance. She was very perceptive! Euphie was right, of course.
"That's right. I'm going to need to find a place to hide them, though, so that we can give them to the three girls without Nicholas and Claire finding out. If this fruit really has some sort of magical power, I don't want them missing out."
We walked a little further until we were only ten minutes away from the camp before wrapping the fruit in a palm leaf and burying them in a shallow hollow we dug under a bush. We went on after that, both eager to get to sleep. The nap we had had earlier was far from being enough, and I was definitely keen to beat Nicholas and Claire back to the camp. Still, my hopes were dashed on that fr
