Pieces of Gax by Mark Crilley

Author:Mark Crilley [Crilley, Mark]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-51078-5
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2006-08-16T04:00:00+00:00

“Seven four twee?” I said. “What's twee supposed to mean?”

“Twee?” said Mr. Beeba. “Akiko, you're in the sixth grade now. Surely you know the number twee. Should have learned it back in kindergarten, I daresay.”

“The number… twee.” I drew my eyebrows tightly together. “Where I come from, Mr. Beeba, I'm pretty sure there is no number twee.”

“Oh, but there's got to be,” said Mr. Beeba. “It's the number between two and three.” He gave me a pitying stare, as if I'd been deprived of one of human civilization's greatest advances. “Twee.”

I shrugged and said: “I think we just call it two and a half.”

“Two and a half?” said Mr. Beeba. He shuddered and turned his attention back to the map. “How clunky.”

Minutes later we arrived at a dock directly below the village, got out of our fogglenaut, and climbed the rickety wooden stairway that led to Bwibblington. As we got closer, we passed several Bwibblingtonians. They were small people, most no more than four feet tall. They had pale gray-blue skin, very widely spaced eyes, and as far as I could see, no nose whatsoever. They all bowed and said “Safe crossing” to us as they passed. The local greeting, Poog explained.

“IT'S HERE,” said Gax when we reached the village, “MY NECK IS DEFINITELY HERE, AND IN GOOD WORKING CONDITION.”

I lifted Gax's head in both hands and looked into his eyes. “How do you know that, Gax?”

“THERE ARE SMALL HOMING DEVICES IN EACH OF MY BODY PARTS,” said Gax.

“Installed 'em myself,” said Spuckler proudly, “for just such an occasion.”

“UNFORTUNATELY, THE SIGNALS THEY SEND OUT ARE WEAK AND DON'T TRAVEL MORE THAN A FEW HUNDRED FEET,” said Gax. “BUT AS I NEAR THE HOMING DEVICES I AM ABLE TO COMMUNICATE QUITE CLEARLY WITH THEM. WITH EFFORT I CAN EVEN MAKE THEM OBEY MY COMMANDS.”

A kind merchant directed us to Pinnary Lane, and soon we were standing at the house marked seven four twee. The numeral for twee, by the way, looks like this:

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