By Daniel Gooding
“I’m serious, that’s what you call a group of lemurs!”
“I thought it was a conspiracy of ravens?”
“Them too—maybe they’re in cahoots!”
Grandpa chuckled, taking my hand.
“You know, in Madagascar, they believe lemurs have souls—if you treat them badly, or make fun of them, they take revenge after they die.”
“What kind of revenge?”
Before he could reply, I spotted Mum and Steve.
“Look, there they are!”
Steve waved to us as we left the enclosure, muttering something that made Mum cackle. Grandpa squeezed my hand again, more faintly now.
“I’ll tell you next time,” he whispered.
I liked that it was almost all dialogue. You pull the reader into the scene. Well done.
Well done. A mystery that we’re interested in.
Interesting.
My young son would love this,l topic, as lemurs are his favourite animals. I might struggle to explain the concept though (!!) A nice, quirky one 😉