Chapter Four
A warm breeze brushed her cheek and birds chirped high in the trees. Una slowly opened her eyes and lazily wondered how long she’d been sleeping. The usual sounds of a healthy forest soothed her. As she looked around, she recognized the place where she’d had her conversation with the toad. And she noticed she was human-sized again. It must have been a dream, she thought. She stretched her arms and legs all at once as she tried to recall the toad’s name. It was something funny, like a sneeze. Wait, no, it was more like a burp. Yes, that’s it!His name was Zurburt. Smiling at the thought, she rolled onto her right side to better stretch her left shoulder, but a rustling noise, fast approaching to her left, made her start.
The movement of her feet as she turned to look behind he
