The Darkest Unicorn by Alice Hemming

Author:Alice Hemming [Hemming, Alice]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780702304170
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: 2020-05-15T04:00:00+00:00

HUMMINGFISH

Sander

On the way, Thandie told him what she had seen. “Those will be the hummingfish,” he said. He had seen them plenty of times. “They are attracted to human laughter. Were you laughing?”

“I’m not sure,” said Thandie, looking embarrassed at the idea she would be laughing on her own.

“Did they swim around you in a circle?”

Thandie looked disappointed that he had guessed this detail, and stopped her excited chatter. That was a shame. Sander felt he had seen everything there was to see and heard everything there was to hear. Hearing Thandie talk about it made him feel as if he were experiencing it for the first time all over again. He wanted her to continue.

“I’ve never seen them myself,” he lied. “What were they like?”

Thandie told him about the laughter that made her laugh, the echoing that sounded like it was coming from the trees and he nodded, interested, as if he had not seen this himself countless times before. He liked to see her in animated storytelling mode. Her enthusiasm reminded her of his own, when he had started on his journey. When everything was new and everything was an adventure. Now he felt he had seen it all. Maybe he would never have that feeling of newness ever again.

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