Fish out of Water

Grandma told Ebony at school the next day that she was about to use her last Genie wish to wish Ebony back home. He was very sad that he had caused such a stir in the castle and told Grandma that he was very sorry.

Everyone was quietly working in the late morning hours on some math when Pigaletto tapped on the glass and told Grandma that he felt something was wrong in the moat. Grandma said she would go check. She left The-House-That-Can-Be-Anything and walked over the castle lawn to the draw bridge over the moat which was all drained out. She saw something flapping around at the bottom and she yelled for the Wizard. Wizard Helmstead came over and, with his wand, magically lifted the flipping creature up to the top of the moat and when it got eye level with Grandma she let out a yell

DOLPHINIAN!

The Wizard magically threw the swimming mammal clear over the castle and it landed right smack dab in the middle of the huge fish tank on the castle lawn.

Dolphinian took a huge breath of water/air and rested on the bottom of the tank for a long time. Grandma and the children all stood by her on the outside of the tank while she lay motionless on the bottom next to them. Some of the girls were crying and some of the boys were really restless. “What happened to her grandma?” said Leify Nosompos.

“I guess she tried to come visit us and came out of the tunnel to the ocean into an empty moat. I should have sent an e-mail out, I feel horrible. I’m just glad we found her in time, thanks to Pigalleto and his 6th sense.”

“What’s that?” said Isaac Nosompos.

Grandma explained that a 6th sense was the ability to feel and understand things with out seeing them or using any of the 5 normal senses which are seeing, hearing, touching, tasting, smelling. She said that spiritual people believe a 6th sense is the spirit of the God telling them things they need to know. The children were curious about Pigaletto but they were all very grateful that he felt there was something wrong in the moat.

After about a half an hour Dolphinian began moving a bit and she was soon swimming slowly around the tank. All the fish were so worried about her and were so glad to see her getting better. Mrs. Hammer Head made her a little bit of food and after a few hours Dolphinian was back to her old self. The children went back to school and started talking about how excited they were to go swimming with Dophinian in the big tank.