On Monday morning at school, all the students were hanging up their coats. Ellie hung hers on the coat hook next to Sophie’s.
“So did you go back to that cave?” Ellie asked Sophie.
Ben looked over, interested to hear the answer.
Hattie and Owen glanced over too. What would Sophie say?
“Yes, we did!” Sophie replied. “And you know what? That spooky noise? It wasn’t just my imagination.”
“It wasn’t?” Ellie said, intrigued.
Sophie had so wanted to take a crystal home. She had almost asked Jet if she could. That way, they could show Ellie and Ben and everyone at school. Proof of the Crystal Cave!
But then Sophie had realized what would happen next. Everyone else would want to go to see the cave for themselves.
How would the bat family ever get any peace?
So in the end, Sophie hadn’t asked for a crystal. Instead, she had asked Hattie and Owen if they could keep a secret—for the bat family.
“Nope! It wasn’t my imagination,” Sophie repeated. She shrugged. “It was just a bat. A really nice bat.”
She looked at Hattie and Owen and winked.
The secret of Crystal Cave was safe with them.
