“So ok, are we waiting for some giant creature to appear out of the darkness and eat us?” Josh said. “Not to be, like, alarmist or anything.”<\/p>\n
“It is a valid question,” Mr. Symarian said, “the answer to which would require information which, at present, we woefully lack.”<\/p>\n
“Nice!” Charlie said.<\/p>\n
The teacher looked puzzled. “What precisely is ‘nice’ about the possibility of being eaten?”<\/p>\n
“No, I mean that great way you say things. Very nice. I could listen to you all day.”<\/p>\n
“Yeah, me too Charlie,” Sid said. “Unless we get eaten first. Maybe we aughta focus here. What do we know?”<\/p>\n
“Well,” Josh said, “Jenny said this place reminded her of the attic.”<\/p>\n
“Yes,” Mr. Symarian said, looking thoughtful. “It would appear that everything we are witnessing here is, in some sense, a reflection of Jenny’s mind.”<\/p>\n
“Or my grandmother’s mind,” Jenny said. The others all looked at her. “I mean, think about it. The attic is pretty much the same now as it was when she was a girl. And I’m not the one under some kind of spell, with demons and stuff.” She grinned apologetically at Sid and Charlie. “No offense intended.”<\/p>\n
“None taken,” Sid said, a little too quickly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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