Resource Sheet 3A.4: Extract

The Mudskipper, by Ovidia Yu, Ch. 11, pp. 89-90

'Look.' She took the looped bag off her wrist and pulled the little stone mudskipper out of its pouch and held it up to show him.

'It's a secret, because it's not really mine. But I'm looking after it for a while because I'm showing it what the sea is like.'

The old man's response was entirely satisfactory. He stared, then reached out and took it gently. 'He got it then. And you brought it back with you. After all these years.'

Lizhi didn't know what he was talking about.