The Daughters Daring (The Daughters Daring & The Enchanted Forest Book 1)

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Author: Steven J. Thompson
large wooden cage. One of them muttered something about how heavy she was and kicked her leg. Emily had discovered that her legs were unbound and returned the favor. She kicked him in the backside, sending him crashing into his cohorts.
         The three goblins stumbled, and fell outside of the cave. Two of them started yelling at the one Emily had kicked, but this one was busy shaking a fist at her. She hoped that perhaps, in the confusion, they would forget to lock the door of her cage, but she had no such luck. They quickly locked her in and went about their business. Two more goblins guarded the entrance to this section of the cave, which was a small, oval-shaped room.
         Emily assessed her surroundings. There was a torch on the cave wall but it wasn't providing much light. She would need time for her eyes to adjust. She could also just make out a strange figure that was laying down inside the cage. The figure exhaled.
         “Who's there?” Emily demanded.
    “Em?” a small, familiar voice answered, “It’s me!”
    “Liz! It is you!” Emily rushed to grab her sister up in a tight hug.
    “Ugh,” Elizabeth groaned, “you're squishing me!”
         Emily stepped back, looked her sister over, and grinned. “Are you ok? Before I was captured I heard you scream.”
         Elizabeth shrugged off Emily's concern. “I'm fine. I thought I heard you scream, too, but I realized too late it was those nasty goblins.” 
         “They got me, too,” said Emily. “I was really worried about you.”
          Not one to be sentimental, Elizabeth insisted, “I told you I'm fine. We shouldn't be fussing over that anyway. We need to find a way out of here.” 
         Emily agreed but decided that she would check on her sister later, after they were free of their cage.  “So, have you already searched for any weak spots—any place that we could escape through?”
         Elizabeth shook her head, “No, I've searched top to bottom and I can't find anything.”
         Emily peered at their enclosure. “Search again. There has to be a weak point. Goblins aren't exactly known for their craftsmanship.”
         “What you say there?” One of the goblins approached the cage with his hands on his hips. “What you know about goblin cage? Goblins make best cage. No escapes!”   
         “Eww!  What's your name, Stink Eye?”  Elizabeth said and Emily began laughing.  The goblin Elizabeth had called Stink Eye had one bulging eye, drooping and gooey.  While Emily was bent over laughing, she noticed that the other goblin had an unattractive trait of his own. 
         “Hairy Foot!” she gasped before laughing even harder. 
         The two goblins stared wide-eyed at the girls. Then they turned to look at each other with suspicion.
         “How the human know your name Hairy Foot?”  Stink Eye asked in a demanding whisper.
         Hairy Foot's eyes grew wide.  “How they know your name Stink Eye?” He looked even closer at his companion.  “You traitor!  I knew it!  I knew it!  You traitor!”  Hairy Foot was bouncing up and down shouting his accusations. 
         “Me traitor? You traitor!” Stink Eye yelled, lunging to pounce on Hairy Foot. The two goblins went rolling on the cave floor, tossing this way and that. 
         Emily finally stopped laughing and looked over at her sister, who was watching the fight, cheering on Stink Eye. The sight of the goblins rolling around, hitting and gouging each other, was both funny and frightening. For the moment, the goblins were preoccupied and ignoring the girls in the cell.
         “Elizabeth, this is our chance to find a way out,” Emily said, pulling Elizabeth away from the cage bars. Both girls went back to scouring their prison cell for a way out. They were busy pulling on the cage bars when they heard the klink of metal on stone.
         One of the goblins had dropped a ring of keys as the two
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