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Simeon sighed
real big and G explained to Julio that he was
saying they would never be able to find that
same well, so that G & J could get sucked
back up it into the Earth world. Cheesh, thought
Julio. How ARE we gonna find a way back? He
was missing his mama more and more and his
cats and his tia, (Aunt) and his dog, his neighbor
Collin, and his school even. When the teacher
asks everybody what they did on summer vacation,
what was he gonna say now? Cheesh. He might
not even be there!
So tales all told, it was getting on towards
sunset … They all went out on deck while invisible
hands cleared away the plates. Julio saved da
Muff some pieces of ham, sweet potato skin and
a bone which he fed to her now. Then a platter
appeared outside the door set down by invisible
hands, with bones, gravey, potatoes and meat
on it. Muff was not growling any more. She was
licking something that neither G nor J could
see, but what must have been the invisible hand
that fed her.
The blue and pink suns were all sitting on the
horizon now, even though they came up at different
times. The white sky was now turning black with
green and yellow streaks, amid purple, lavender
and pink clouds. It was a magnificent sunset,
so bright you almost needed sunglasses.
As it got darker, things on ship began to take
shape and … life, … er …. well, not exactly.
Now G & J could sorta see the ‘invisibles’
that had carried the platters of food, and who
knows what else they had done. Mopped the decks,
washed the dishes, rowed the ship? They were
still gliding on silently as if over a glass
sea. The wispy smoke-like figures appeared to
be other types of birds. Well the ship was called,
what was it? El Pajaro Rosado ~ the Pink Bird.
And it does have bird heads at the front and
back, and wings on its sides.
Julio was trying to make out what kind of birds
they were. Some were tall and had long legs and
necks. Why they were flamingoes, of course! “Granma!”
yelled Hoo a little too loudly, then he melted
down to a faint whisper, “some of them are flamingoes!”
“Well I’ll be darned!” exclaimed G, whispering
back to him. “And some look like penguins,” J
whispered.
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