and cute tails Good Because there’s a whole bunch of monsters in my hometown of Slick City under Rockfall Mountain Monsters like my best friend and detective partner Tank She’s a troll No tail but lots of gadgets Trolls like to tinker with technology and Tank is no exception Her tinkering can save the day or land us both in big trouble And right now I was about to land in something very cold and wet how far out you are That’s a new Look record Okay fun’s over Reel me in Tank 2
Let me down please Remember lower me SLOWLY Heya Where’s Fizz I’m surprised the arm didn’t break Not yet Here she comes Hi Aleetha 3
Fizz Good question There you are Fizz Aleetha helped me to my feet Quit fooling around I was too sore to yell at Tank And she probably would have been too busy putting out the fire in her backpack to hear me anyway 4
Aleetha helped me out of the harness She was a wizard but she unbuckled the straps with the speed of an engineer Well okay she was a wizard-in-training She had gone to our school until she left to learn magic at the Shadow Tower Now she liked to surprise us with her tricks as well as help us solve mysteries The look on her face told me something was very wrong Aleetha unsnapped the last buckle and flopped onto a rock She looked sadder than a goblin on the last day of summer vacation That goblin being me Tank took the helmet from me and turned to Aleetha What’s wrong My teacher is missing Aleetha sounded like she was going to cry So what’s the problem I said If Mr Mantle disappeared I’d throw a party Fizz Tank said Old Tentacle-Face isn’t so bad Then why have I got a stack of math homework taller than me at home Maybe if you actually did the homework it wouldn’t be a giant stack Aleetha said An interesting concept I’ll take it under consideration 5
