\u201cYou could die, you know,\u201d cautions a silver snake.<\/p>\n
Its paper tongue flicks, and the lightning moves.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019ll fall on you,\u201d it says, \u201cand the Earth will shake, and you\u2019ll probably be buried alive.\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a good warning, I think. It\u2019s an important truth. But Emily, she doesn\u2019t mind. She doesn\u2019t heed.<\/p>\n
She doesn\u2019t . . . actually . . . know . . . how to understand the words of snakes.<\/p>\n
So she just picks it up, and she kisses it, instead, and she gets a paper cut on her upper lip; and she puts it down, and she pats its head.<\/p>\n
And she goes off to summon down the sky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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