The dragon’s lair was covered in glue

Some hardened, some sticky, and some glittery too!

“Golly gosh golly, what will I do?”

How to get through this sticky stew?

The dragon’s cupboard was across the hall

Within were her cousins, in a hollow glue ball

The dragon slept against the opposite wall

And Ella crept across the floor, trying not to fall

At the wall she cut out a hardened glue stair

The only way to make it, to the cupboard up there

And Jake and Jarod and Jimmy did stare

Their cousin was here? From where?

She punctured the bubble and let them all out

But their safe escape, was still in much doubt

Though aided by the fact that the dragon had no snout

Then little Jimmy fell, and gave a great shout!

The dragon awoke with a thunderous roar

The four children fled, to get to the door

If the dragon caught them, they would be no more

But the dragon blocked the door, alas alack for the children four

Then something happened, call it good luck, call it fate

“Sorry!” called Paul “If I’m somewhat late!”

“Paul!” cried Ella “How’d you get here mate?”

“Well,” he started ”...oops, did I make myself bait?”

Paul had crept in, beneath the front door

It took some searching, but he wished to help her more

After hunting up books and maps and lore

He found the front entrance and went on o’er

After that he knew not what to do

Neither, for that matter, did Ella Sue

Before the dragon made Paul’s choice something he would rue

Ella remembered his knife and it to him she threw

Being sticky from glue, she missed by a mile

But it stuck the dragon’s tail, in a big glue pile

That stopped it, for a bit of a while

And they filed out of there, single file

They scurried away as fast as they could

And didn’t stop till they were gone for good!

“Thanks for coming, I didn’t think you would”

“How could I not? I did what I should”

They spent a good while walking back

Comparing notes, sharing a snack

Resting, and then picking up the slack

Making their way down the beaten track

At home everyone was worried too

Their children were missing that was true

And the house was covered in glue!

Their parents yelled and cried till they were blue

Of course Ella May Sue told the truth

But the adults wouldn’t believe them without proof

So Paul took them to meet Head of the Order, Ruth

And thus ends this strange story from Ella’s youth!