The Twelve Pixies - Part Eight by Joanne Morris Okano

     You might be wondering why the pixies were eating marshmallows.  Well, they had brought some for their journey, but had forgotten them in their knapsacks and the marshmallows had melted all over their knapsacks in the heat of Spain.  So they had to eat the marshmallows.
     The pixies walked down the road towards the houses of the town of Medina del Campo, along a tree-lined avenue, when suddenly it started to rain.  They hadn't expected this, and as it poured with the rain, they were rather wishing they were inside, because it was an unmade road and the mud started to be a problem.  They were soon stuck in it and couldn't get free.  Oh, whatever to do!  They looked around for something or someone to get themselves out, but all they could see coming down the road was a caterpillar.  The caterpillar stopped when he reached them and offered them a ride to where they were going and they were very pleased to get it.
     They went down the road singing, accompanied by the sludgey sound of the mud squelching with moisture beneath the many feet of their friend, and the rain falling.
                                                                     TO BE CONTINUED