Another Hairy Tail 4 by Campbell Jamie

Author:Campbell, Jamie
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Jamie Campbell

CHAPTER 6

The elephant enclosure model was heavy as Hannah carried it through the zoo to the food court. She had only spent another hour on it the night before to make sure it was perfect. Poor Alicia was up until after midnight.

There were already three other diagrams lined up when she added hers to the display. The monkey, spider, and penguin enclosures looked fantastic – the interns had gone all out for the recommendation. As Hannah inspected them, she hoped hers was good enough to catch the public eye so they’d vote for her.

Being a weekday, there would be fewer people at the zoo, so less people to vote for their favorite enclosure. It would be difficult getting the numbers to win the competition when faced with so many high quality entrants.

The recommendation was on her mind all morning. Every visitor she came across in her duties was an opportunity to remind them to vote and explained her entry was the elephants’ enclosure. She hoped by putting a friendly face to the entry, they might vote for her.

Unfortunately, every other intern was doing the same thing. They weren’t just colleagues anymore, they were competition. And the hunger to win was very strong.

At least she hadn’t seen Harry yet. Hannah saw his enclosure lined up with the others, so he’d dropped it in sometime during the morning. Thankfully, she had managed to be elsewhere in the zoo at that time.

A message crackled through Hannah’s radio, asking her to come to the ticket office as they were understaffed and needed help. When she arrived, she jumped into a ticket booth and started to process visitors so they could enter – and hopefully vote.

She had processed dozens of people before she stopped. The man standing at her booth was one she recognized – Mr. Samburu, Alicia’s father.

“I’d like to see my daughter,” he said. “Do I need to buy a ticket for that?”

Technically, he did. But all the staff and interns had family members visit them without paying for admission. It was acceptable, an unspoken perk of working at the zoo. “No, I’ll call Alicia and ask her to let you in.”

“Thank you.” He was a man of few words, as Hannah had already discovered.

She called through to Alicia on the radio and asked Mr. Samburu to wait while she served some more visitors. Alicia turned up a few minutes later, her hands still covered in mud from helping dig a new tunnel for the wombats.

The girls exchanged a curious glance, both wondering the same thing. Even though they’d spoken once, Alicia and her father still weren’t on the best of terms. Hannah hoped his presence at the zoo was a good thing, perhaps another step toward repairing their relationship.

Her work kept Hannah busy for the rest of the day. The number of visitors was surprisingly high so she was keen to see if they were voting during their visit too. Before she left, she went by the food court.

Visitors were asked to vote by placing a rock from a pile into the container by the enclosure they wanted to vote for.

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