This is Ria. Welcome to Little Stories for Tiny People. Our story today is a charmer. I think it's about a sweet chipmunk named Darla who tends to make impulsive decisions.

Her older sister is usually around to keep her in check. But when we meet Darla, she's alone

for the very first time.

What could go wrong?

Let's find out.

It's called Darla and the Vaz.

Take it away, Peter and Jillian.

Remember, there are no pictures.

Let's match the pictures in your mind.

You can imagine the pictures however you want.

Okay, here we go.

Darla, a chipmunk with a distinctive curl on her head and a perpetually cheerful smile shifted her chair into a spot by the fireplace in her cottage. There. She studied at a moment, then decided it needed to be an inch to the left. There. She

turned and swept her eyes over the cottage.

It was a single room.

She didn't even have to turn her head.

Hmm.

Darla had arrived two days ago.

She'd been dreaming of this moment for so long, a fresh start, a little cottage of her

very own, where everything could be just so. Of course, the cottage wasn't hers alone. She'd share it

with her older sister, Flora,

who'd been called away for a week,

but who'd be living with her soon.

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