The foretelling of a big problem, as big as an elephant who is missing a tooth
The Flea remembered his rather complicated childhood, which had been full of adventures.
“Why shouldn’t I tell you?” he replied to the little Child, raising his eyes. “I feel I can open my soul in front of you. I consider you my friend, did you forget?” he replied, looking at Mother Drop from under his eyebrows, to see if she could hear him.
But she was lost in a wave of thoughts at which nobody could even guess.
“It’s only one thing that I would not say to anybody else,” the Flea specified, turning to the little Child. “The secret you revealed this evening about that leaf with twelve twin ribs!” he added, smiling. “Well, that which you revealed as a secret will truly stay buried in my soul. But, in general,
