Mira sat in the dark for a long time. Then she opened her bedside drawer, placed the stone inside, and closed it gently.
"And you? Future me?"
Mira froze. She had been worried about the test. But how did a rock know? excelsizeyeter
It was the strangest gift twelve-year-old Mira had ever received. No wrapping paper, no bow, just a small, flat stone that hummed faintly in her palm. Her eccentric Uncle Theo had pressed it into her hand at the train station, whispered "excelsizeyeter," and then vanished into the steam of the departing locomotive. Mira sat in the dark for a long time
Mira felt dizzy. "So the stone is useless?" placed the stone inside