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1a4238f Nice plan. Take the gullible outsiders, walk them around for a bit, then feed them to the giant tortoise. tortoise magic-burns kate-daniels kate Ilona Andrews
8b343d1 "My name," I tell Wilbur in the most dignified voice I can find, "Was inspired by Harriet Quimby, the first female American pilot and the first woman ever to cross the Channel in an aeroplane. My mother chose it to represent freedom and bravery and independence, and she gave it to me just before she died." There's a short pause while Wilbur looks appropriately moved. Then Dad says, "Who told you that?" "Annabel did." "Well, it's not true at all. You were named after Harriet the tortoise, the second longest living tortoise in the world." There's a silence while I stare at Dad and Annabel puts her head in her hands so abruptly that the pen starts to leak into her collar. " ," she moans quietly. "A ?" I repeat in dismay. "I'm named after a ? What the hell is a tortoise supposed to represent?" "Longevity?" tortoise lol Holly Smale
611a11c In there?' She nodded. 'You want us to go into the tortoise?' Another nod. 'It's alive.' Another nod. tortoise magic-burns kate-daniels kate Ilona Andrews
bc7606c "When we were little," the Mock Turtle went on at last, more calmly, though still sobbing a little now and then, "we went to school in the sea. The master was an old Turtle - we used to call him Tortoise -" "Why did you call him Tortoise, if he wasn't one?" Alice asked. "We called him Tortoise because he taught us," said the Mock Turtle angrily: "really you are very dull!" learning mock-turtle turtle tortoise taught wonderland teacher pun school Lewis Carroll