"What do you say, Jessop? Clover said, peering back at their new sidekick. "Are you game for taking a closer look?"
"Sure," he said. "We've got a dragon to protect us, right? What could possibly go wrong?"
Clover pulled gently on the right side of Rex's neck and leaned her body forward, signaling for him to move closer to the castle. But the closer they got, the more enormous it appeared, with Rex beginning to look more like a large horsefly buzzing around the soaring ramparts than a scary dragon.
"Let's go down on the ground to check this out more closely," Clover said, steering Rex toward the large front gate surrounded by a wide moat.
When they landed outside the imposing facade, they peered up at the enormous wooden doors rising almost a hundred feet overhead. They knelt down to peer under the base of the gates, then opened their eyes in shock as a horse with hooves as big as tractor tires clomped noisily past. There was a buzz of activity in the courtyard as giant people carried provisions across the dusty piazza while children bigger than their dragon scurried around kicking a ball.
"Wow," Clover said, pulling back and peering at her friends with wide eyes. "You weren't kidding about these people. They're huge! How do you think they'll react to the intrusion of little people like us?"
"We can't be seen as much of threat to them, that's for sure," Tara said. "They're either going to view us a curiosity or as a tasty snack for their afternoon tea. We should definitely proceed with caution if we're going to try to make contact."
"How should we go about doing this?" Clover said, peering up at the castle walls. "Should we go in through the front gate or have Rex fly us up to one of those towers?"
"I don't know about you guys," Jessop said, noticing one of the giant horses dropping a steaming pile of manure onto the ground. "But I don't really feel like getting stepped on by one of those things. Besides, it's not just their feet we have to watch out for."
"It looks like Rex is going to prove himself useful in more ways than we thought," Clover said, smiling to her friends.
When she ran away from home only a few short days ago, she had no idea what new wonders and adventures awaited her in this strange new land of Abbynthia.
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