





Incubation?
Part 7.
There was loud screaming and shrieking as young children and nuns ran away from the stairwell that led to the class rooms.
Russell and Pierre had been sitting on the high wall at the edge of the playground overlooking the valley. The were animal spotting. Thus far Pierre who was considered a farm boy, had spotted five different antelope in the valley savannah below them, and was busy explain the differences to Russell who had known only the city life and the convent.
“Snake! Snake!” some of the kids were yelling at the top of their voices as they ran into the playground.
Hearing these screams, Pierre immediately got up and started running towards the commotion, Russel caught by surprise took a while to follow Pierre.
As Pierre got to the stairwell, he found a puff adder curled up ready to strike in the corner between the classrooms wall and the stairwell.
Merle was a nature person. She firmly believed that everything in nature had its place and reason, even snakes. This respect for nature she had taught to Pierre on the farm. She had always told Pierre that a snake strikes out of fear and not malice. In this Pierre had a great regard for nature, and a knack for catching snakes even poisonous ones. This hissing puff adder, was not as large as the one Merle and Pierre had removed from Major’s henhouse together, but it would be the first one Pierre would be catching without Merle’s supervision.
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