The Rook
“All the kids were wearing orange Tshirts that read “Third graders rock the world!!!”
Tessa tried to sneak past them before they filled the corridor but didn’t quite make it.
Great.
With a practiced flourish, the aquarium girl gestured for the children to stop.
“How many of you know how to smell?” Her voice was high and chattery and to Tessa it seemed to echo way more than the acoustics of the corridor should have allowed. All the children raised their hands. “And taste things like pizza or hot ...dogs … or broccoli?” At the words pizza and hot dogs the children smiled, at the word broccoli they grimaced but faithfully raised their hands.
“And touch and hear and see?” More hands.
“Well,” she continued, “those things are called our senses. Most of us have five, although some people may lack one or two. Well, sharks belong to a group of fish that have no bones in their whole bodies and are the only animals on the planet who have a scientifi-cally proven sixth sense!MoreLess
Tessa tried to sneak past them before they filled the corridor but didn’t quite make it.
Great.
With a practiced flourish, the aquarium girl gestured for the children to stop.
“How many of you know how to smell?” Her voice was high and chattery and to Tessa it seemed to echo way more than the acoustics of the corridor should have allowed. All the children raised their hands. “And taste things like pizza or hot ...dogs … or broccoli?” At the words pizza and hot dogs the children smiled, at the word broccoli they grimaced but faithfully raised their hands.
“And touch and hear and see?” More hands.
“Well,” she continued, “those things are called our senses. Most of us have five, although some people may lack one or two. Well, sharks belong to a group of fish that have no bones in their whole bodies and are the only animals on the planet who have a scientifi-cally proven sixth sense!MoreLess
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