We rolled on, down the road. Brush rose on both sides of what once was a curvy subdivision street. The woods looked surprisingly picturesque. Huge trees touched with green moss vied for space. Small clumps of flowers bloomed in bright patches here and there: yellow dandelions, purple henbits, tiny white blossoms in a nest of green – looked like hairy bittercress, but I wasn’t sure. A wide island of forsythia bushes flowered on the left in a froth of vivid yellow, as if dipped into whipped sunshine. On the right, a nameless vine dripped from the branches, threatening to spill delicate lavender flowers. You half expected Pooh Bear to waddle out from between the brush. Of course, knowing Sibley, Pooh would open a mouth full of deep-water teeth and try to take a chunk out of our hides.
Directions said two rights, one left, then straight. The first two turns were easy enough, the left was a tight squeeze between two pines. Beyond the turn bamboo hugged the road, forming a dense green tunnel. I steered the Jeep through it.
“Are you sure you know where you’re going?” Andrea frowned.
“Would you like me to pull over and ask that bamboo for directions?”
“I don’t know, do you think it will answer?”
We peered at bamboo.
“I think it looks suspicious,” Andrea said.
“Maybe there is a heffalump hiding in it.”
Andrea stared at me.
“You know, heffalump? From Pooh Bear?”
“Where do you even get this shit?”
Weeeeeeeeee!
Squeeeeeeee!!!! Thank you!!!!
I love Pooh! I love Kate 5 Snippets!!
<3
Woooot!
THANK YOU!!!!
Thank you so much! This is a great Birthday present for me!
You are the bestest ever lol!!
I LOVE SNIPPETS!
ohhhh, love the snippet, thanks for posting it!
Was day-dreaming about Kate4 and Tigger cropped up. Well Pooh Bear is a step up. Lol!
Waw!! Great snippet, I just love it! Thanks for sharing it with us^^. You’re awesome!
LOVE it!!!!
Andrea and Kate sound just like me and my sisters anytime we get together
Ohhhhhhhhhh its just sooo juicy! Wonder were Kate got the Pooh reference? From her past, Pooh books & movies don’t seem her taste. However:
AWESOME SNIPPET ILONA!!!!! Thanks for sharing.
Oooo! Thank you!
I used to sing the Heffalumps and Woozels song all the time, because it freaked my sister out. *innocent*
Loved it! LOL Thanks for the snippet. It helps the dry periods with no new books to read.
Brill. If Mahon is Pooh Bear then who is Tigger?
Kate knows flowers? And I love “Where do you even get this shit?”
*happy dance*
Maybe it isn’t Kate.
She knows the ones that are edible
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love love love me some snippet!! Thank you!!
Have to check now if my bamboo is hiding something…
Thank you so much. Loved the snippet
Yum, yum, yum. Thank you for the tasty snipet.
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!!!
Woohoo snippet! Loving it! Thank You Ilona!
So awesome! Thanks for the snippet!
QUeeeeeee! thank you that made my day.
LOL! I recognize the flowers!
didn’t know forsythia was edible, though. Cool!
Poor Andrea – her family didn’t read to her when she was a kid.
Yeah, poor Andrea.
And Kate — who knew Warlords had parenting skills!
Cool
Thanks Ilona 
Just great lol. I love “whipped sunshine.” Thank you!
Funny. Love the image of Pooh with a mouth-full of flesh tearing teeth. Lol. Oh and the “whipped sunshine”. Very imaginative. Thanks.
Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
I love it! And I love that she reads Pooh!! Kate has so many facets, wonder where and when she had time to read some Pooh?
I can’t even tell you how much I love Kate and her humor.
These snippets are what keep me sane until Magic Bleeds come out. Thanks!!!!!!! 
Fabulous!! Voron reading pooh to Kate-what an scene that would have been.
I love many things about Kate and this passage demonstrates two of my favorites. I LOVE how well-read Kate is and I love seeing the ever-closer evolving relationship between these two women with heavy secrets.
so awesome! of course, i don’t know what a heffalump is, either. If you were to throw the term at me out of nowhere, i’d have guessed a hallucinogen or something. um… *retreating back to cave*
“Suddenly, a huge Woozle erupted from the bamboo and devoured them both.”
-end Kate 5
Heh heh heh heh heh heh……..
Thank you for the snippet, you are the best
“Would you like me to pull over and ask that bamboo for directions?”
(I wonder what they would do if it did answer them. . .)
I hope this line survives and makes it into the actual book, because, really, it’s priceless. Signature tag-worthy. Right up there with quotes about Kate’s investigative skills.
*sigh* Thanks! So is May here yet?
Thank you so much! This was just the thing to make this birthday memorable!
woot! So awesome, thanks
Pooh Bear and heffalumps!!
Love these two and the moment they are having! Thanks for sharing.
*jumping up and down in excitement*
I love love love snippets!
Thanks so much!
great, i love it. thanks very much for it.
Woo snippet!! I love how the paragraph starts with beautiful descriptions of the flowers/plants and ends with an image of a freaky pooh bear!
I’ll never look funny at pooh bear anymore… =)
yeah snippet love it, thank you sooooooo much, loved the bamboo bit.
Thank you for the snippet Ilona. It’s great to see Kate and Andrea are having an adventure! Are they in Atlanta? x
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA You are killing me. I want the book so bad I could eat endless amounts of chocolate until you hand it over:)
(Winnie The Pooh
Winnie The Pooh
Tubby little buddy all stuffed with fluff
Hes Winnie The Pooh
Winnie The Pooh
Willy nilly silly ol bear) hmm… would pooh bear come to life in kate would if enough people beleaved in him? well that was a scary thought.
Loved this snippet … My daughter and I have giggled on and off for days over it .. especially when we are out on the farm passing the bamboo bushes …its a good snippet when it has you laughing for days Thanks