But on Monday morning Mia persuaded her dad to take a detour so that he could give them all a lift. They’d wanted to get there extra early so they could check on their new arrival after his first night. Rosie had texted them all evening with updates, but they couldn’t wait to see him for themselves. Before they got into their usual, hurried, pre-school routine of feeding, watering and refilling haynets along with skipping out the worst of the droppings, they’d rushed to Puzzle’s stable. He stood looking over his stable door brightly and contentedly, loving all the fuss that followed. After promising him they’d return as quickly as possible, and Mr Honeycott saying he’d keep a close eye on him while they were at school, they’d sprinted off, with hay on their coats and covered in horse hair, to catch the school bus. They spent their lunch hour poring over a map of local bridleways. “This is the first time we’ve ever had two cases to handle at the same time, and we need to decide which one’s our priority,”
What do You think about Puzzle: The Runaway Pony (2012)?
