The secret zoo, p.17
The Secret Zoo, page 17
He walked upstairs to his bedroom to put Podgy’s feather in a safe place. As he closed it inside his dresser drawer, his gaze fell upon his red hunting cap. He paused. Then he picked it up and turned it in his hands.
It’s kind of goofy, Solana had said about the cap. It makes you look like a little kid.
Noah considered this. He walked to his bedroom window and looked out. He could see the faint silhouettes of houses and trees. It hurt to know that the animals of the Secret Zoo would no longer enter his neighborhood at night. No more monkeys jumping across the rooftops, no more tarsiers perched in the trees.
He looked at the cap, a hundred memories rushing through his head—times in the Secret Zoo, and times long before it. After a few seconds, he lifted his arms and donned the cap. It felt comfortable. Right. But Noah was growing, and he wondered how much longer it would.
He stared out at his neighborhood again. The dark sky was beginning to brighten. And while people were waking from their dreams, Noah suddenly knew that he and his friends never would. Even after his house returned to normal and the evidence of the animals was removed, the scouts would never forget every moment of their time in the Secret Zoo.
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Cover art © 2017 Justin Gerard
Bryan Chick, The Secret Zoo
