Horse Feathers (2013)
“She’d only had the eggs for a day and already she was neglecting them. Some Mother Goose she was!
Stevie knelt beside the incubator, opened the lid, and very gently turned each egg. Then she grabbed the instructions. She sat back on her heels and went through them, line by line, to see if she might have done any permanent damage to the eggs.
From what she read it seemed as if the eggs would be all right. Not that it prevented her from being nervous. She checked and rechecked the temperature and... humidity—everything was normal. Still, she was reluctant to leave, even though it meant missing the rest of her lesson.
What if she had actually done damage and she just couldn’t tell yet? And then what if she left and the damage got worse? The safest thing is just to stay with them, she thought. With that decision made, she crawled onto her desk chair and leaned against the back of it, never once taking her eyes off the incubator.
Stevie was still sitting in the same position, staring at the incubator, when Lisa and Carole knocked on her bedroom door two hours later.MoreLess
Stevie knelt beside the incubator, opened the lid, and very gently turned each egg. Then she grabbed the instructions. She sat back on her heels and went through them, line by line, to see if she might have done any permanent damage to the eggs.
From what she read it seemed as if the eggs would be all right. Not that it prevented her from being nervous. She checked and rechecked the temperature and... humidity—everything was normal. Still, she was reluctant to leave, even though it meant missing the rest of her lesson.
What if she had actually done damage and she just couldn’t tell yet? And then what if she left and the damage got worse? The safest thing is just to stay with them, she thought. With that decision made, she crawled onto her desk chair and leaned against the back of it, never once taking her eyes off the incubator.
Stevie was still sitting in the same position, staring at the incubator, when Lisa and Carole knocked on her bedroom door two hours later.MoreLess
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