Unlikely allies Mary Margaret, Queenie, and Leroy team together for a good cause to help the Storybrooke nuns sell their candles during the town's Miner's Day festival. But Leroy makes a promise to a nun, Astrid, that he may not be able to keep; and Emma and Newt look into the mysterious disappearance of David's ex-wife, Kathryn.
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"Miner's Day?" Harry asked in confusion, looking over the flyers in the diner. "What's that?"
"Dad says it's a holiday celebrating an old tradition here," Ava answered as she finished her toast.
"Yeah, apparently the nuns used to make candles and traded them with the miners for coal," Henry nodded.
Harry frowned thoughtfully. "I guess that explains the mines we got trapped in."
"It's Maine," Nicholas frowned at his pancakes. "Why not just trade for lobster?"
Henry and Harry's laughter carried over to the table where Emma, Newt, Queenie, Mary Margaret, and David were eating, and Mary Margaret sighed happily as she watched. "I'm glad they have other friends."
"Yeah, me, too," Emma nodded in agreement. "Harry never had the chance to make friends while he lived with his aunt and uncle, and given we lived in a pretty remote area, the only friends he ever got to make were at Hogwarts."
"And they're all the way in Britain," David nodded in understanding.
"Exactly."
"Well, it's only a few weeks or so until we need to send him back again," Newt said. "He'll see them again soon."
Queenie giggled. "Imagine if we run into them the same way we did last time."
Emma snickered. "Hermione would never leave the bookstore if she got the chance."
Newt burst out laughing. "She just never stops learning, does she?"
"Nope!"
"So she's a bookworm?" David smirked.
"Hey!" Mary Margaret scowled. "There's nothing wrong with loving to learn!"
"Says the teacher," Newt grinned cheekily.
"Yeah?" Mary Margaret narrowed her eyes. "Who tutored Harry before Remus arrived?"
Emma laughed loudly. "She's got you there!"
Newt sighed. "Sisters," he grumbled.
Queenie patted his arm comfortingly. "I saw on the flyers that volunteers have been asked to help sell candles?"
"Oh, yes!" Mary Margaret perked up and smiled. "I've helped as long as I can remember. Are you interested?"
"Planning to reopen the bakery is going smoothly enough," Queenie nodded. "I can spare a day to help."
"Great!" Mary Margaret beamed. "Emma? Newt?"
Emma's phone rang before she could answer, and she quickly answered. "Sheriff Swan." Whatever she heard on the line made her expression darken, and the way she glanced at David made him straighten. "Yeah, I'll be right down." She hung up with a heavy sigh. "Duty calls. Maybe later, if we get the time."
Newt blinked. "We?"
"Yeah," Emma nodded as she stood. "I need you on this one. Harry!" Her son looked up from talking to his brother and their friends, and she pointed to Queenie. "Make sure Queenie and Remus always know where you are, OK?"
"OK, Mum!" he nodded.
"What happened?" David asked worriedly, hurrying to follow Emma out of the diner.
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Operation Cobra (Book Two of The Savior Fables)
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