Ever after high Briar's tale

Chapter 5

Two more brothers had pulled the sheets off those chairs, and they ran off, dragging the sheets behind them. Could her broth- ers have taken her jewelry? No, they had no use for trinkets. Besides, they seemed too busy with their blanket fort to bother with necklaces.
"Mom!"
Briar ran into the east gallery and grabbed hold of the zip line that was bolted to the ceiling. With a running start, she pushed off, zooming through the east gallery and the blue drawing room. Three more of her little brothers went swooshing by on a zip line going the other direction. Their arms were full of something black, and the music master was holler- ing and chasing after them-on foot. Briar shook her head. He'd never catch them.
"Where's Mom?" she yelled after her brothers. "And have you seen any robbers?"
But they were gone.
The zip line shot her through the yellow drawing room and into the music room. There were lots of long corridors and connected rooms in the palace, so zip lines just made sense. Anyway, they were a blast to ride. Briar let go, landing on pillows on the music room floor.