Kali meets Prancer

Chapter 4

After school, Kali went straight home while knowing Jessica had gone out into the woods in search for the reindeer. Kali too couldn't seem to get the reindeer she and Jess saw in the woods the other night off of her mind. 

When Kali arrived home, she headed out near the woods where her house was still in view, trying to find something to do before dinner was ready. 

Kali layed down on her back, making snow angels before she stopped for a moment as her mind began to wander. The curious little adventure girl's imagination was running wild with thoughts, especially about that reindeer...

Suddenly, Kali heard this loud bellowing sound and as she got up she couldn't believe her eyes. 

"It's you" She said. 

Yep, there he was. It was the reindeer again, standing there in front of the adventure girl only a few feet away. 

Kali stood up and slowly approached the reindeer. "What are you doing here?..." She asked him, reaching out to touch his muzzle. 

That's when Kali noticed the reindeer was limping and looked down to see his front leg had been wounded, most likely by a gun shot. 

"Oh, you're hurt" Kali frowned, coming up to exam his leg. 

That's when she noticed he was still wearing the harness. That same strange harness she saw him wearing the other night when she and Jessica first encountered him. 

Kali's crystal then started glowing around her neck which she found strange before she began reading the strange writing on the reindeer's harness. 

"If found, please immediately return to the North Pole -S.C."

Kali's mind suddenly started racing as she looked at the reindeer again face to face. Now Kali's met all of Santa's reindeer a couple of times before, briefly when Santa was making his runs. She knew all of them by heart, their likes, their dislikes, etc. But she needed to know for certain. 

As Kali looked up at the reindeer's forehead, noticing the white mark in the shape of a diamond there, her eyes widened with realization and shock. 

"Prancer!?..." She looked directly into the reindeer's eyes recognizing him, knowing that it was without a doubt Santa's very own Prancer. 

But before she could say another word, Prancer took off back into the woods. 

"Wait! Come back!" Kali tried chasing after Prancer but soon stopped once she saw that he had disappeared. 

The young girl sighed looking out into the woods one last time before she headed back inside for dinner. At the dinner table, Kali wasn't really that was hungry and instead playing around with her food. The adventure girl had so much on her mind now. She decided to ask her parents a question. 

"Mom, Dad? Is it possible for Santa's reindeer to fly all the way down here by themselves?"

"Oh, honey, you know that Santa's reindeer are well taken care of and would never leave the North Pole" Jane told her daughter. 

"But if they did have a chance to leave the North Pole, do you think they would?" The curious tomboy asked her parents. 

Walter thought for a good long moment before giving a wink at his daughter. "Mmmmm. They might"

Kali gave a small smile knowing from her parents that they heavily believed in Santa Claus just like she did. But have never told their daughter, yet at least about their own adventures with jolly old St. Nick. 

Later that night, Kali had a strange dream about the plastic reindeer from a few days ago falling down on Main Street which startled her awake. The adventure girl just couldn't get Prancer off of her mind and suddenly had the strangest feeling she needed to go over to Jessica's house.