Finding Fionna

I opened the door to find Nuthatch standing on the porch, the look on his face telling me he had more worries than what I had to say to him. I didn’t invite him in. Instead, I stepped out onto the porch and closed the door behind me. Now that I had eaten lunch, I wanted to go out and do my part to find Fionna, so I wasn’t intending on sitting around in the house, chatting with Mr. Nuthatch. “What did you find out?” I asked him.

“Well,” Nuthatch said, taking a few steps back. “I spoke to Mage Jaye, and she is open to the possibility of accepting Miss Flamingo into the school--under one condition.”

My eyes narrowed, and I pursed my lips for a second before I said, “If you tell me that that condition has to do with me also attending the school, you’d better get back on that phone because that’s not