The Lightning Catcher (2013)
““I bet you anything she already knows exactly what Dankhart’s up to.”
“Yeah, not to mention the fact that she’d probably make us search every inch of the experimental division for specks of storm fluff if we go charging up to her office. Just for knowing stuff we shouldn’t.”
“But what about the missing map? Do you reckon the lightning catchers are even looking for it?”
“’Course they are. That was the first thing Principal Dark-Angel asked Angus about when he arrived at the Exploratorium, wasn’t... it?”
“That’s the real reason she brought me here in the first place, you mean.”
“Well, if they have found a map of the lightning vaults since then, they’re keeping very quiet about it.”
“If they’ve found so much as a missing mousetrap, I’ll eat Percival Vellum’s armpit warmers! Have you seen the look on old Dark-Angel’s face these days? That’s not the face of a happy principal.”
And so their conversations continued over the next few days, going round and round in endless circles, until all three of them became irritable and snappish and Angus’s head throbbed with sheer frustration.MoreLess
“Yeah, not to mention the fact that she’d probably make us search every inch of the experimental division for specks of storm fluff if we go charging up to her office. Just for knowing stuff we shouldn’t.”
“But what about the missing map? Do you reckon the lightning catchers are even looking for it?”
“’Course they are. That was the first thing Principal Dark-Angel asked Angus about when he arrived at the Exploratorium, wasn’t... it?”
“That’s the real reason she brought me here in the first place, you mean.”
“Well, if they have found a map of the lightning vaults since then, they’re keeping very quiet about it.”
“If they’ve found so much as a missing mousetrap, I’ll eat Percival Vellum’s armpit warmers! Have you seen the look on old Dark-Angel’s face these days? That’s not the face of a happy principal.”
And so their conversations continued over the next few days, going round and round in endless circles, until all three of them became irritable and snappish and Angus’s head throbbed with sheer frustration.MoreLess
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