The check-in with Rey a few hours later was filled with more surprises—she and Linda were at Xavier"s place in Makiki. And I, annoyingly enough, was stuck due to a mega delay at Denver Airport, because a plane part that had to be flown in from San Fran.
“It"s so cool here. There"s a real live shark!”
“On the sofa or on the floor?” I quipped.
“In a huge tank, silly. It"s like forty feet long and ten feet tall.”
“The shark?” I asked blandly.
One of Rey"s buffalo snorts erupted. “The tank, you nit. The shark"s name is Bogard and he"s three feet long. He"s got a friend, too. A remoulade.”
“Isn"t that a sauce?”
Xavier said something.
Rey giggled. “Oh, it"s a remora.”
remora“Awesome. Did you see Cholla?”
“We didn"t. She wasn"t answering calls and she didn"t come to the door—”
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