Chapter 45.
Smith squealed in confusion and annoyance as he dropped his pacifier. Mrs Taraha's voice was one I would never forget. The thick accent and the odd melody she spoke with rang like an alarm clock in my head. It felt as if the entire world stopped spinning. For if the Earth stopped spinning, everything would collapse. Trees, buildings, the sea, living beings, everything not attached to the earth's bedrock, would all be flung to the side as if it was nothing, destroying everything in its path. Super volcanos would erupt around the world and spread thick clouds of ash in the sky and cover the ground in lava. Everything would be destroyed. That's how I felt. The organs in my stomach felt as if they had been sucked down gravity while my body froze to stone under the pressure of the anxiety I was
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