Super Slime

Zion stood beside an enormous SUPER SLIME sign, holding up his tub.

It is the green one.

Ava watched it stretch. Then Zion showed how it glowed like a little green moon.

A tub cost three coins. Ava had three. Buying it would leave no coins on her band, but she would have the slime.

It is the green one.

Mum asked where it would live.

‘In a tub,’ Ava said.

Louis remembered that the last slime had escaped onto the carpet. Ava thought this lid would be different.

The green tub glowed while they talked. Before choosing, Ava could think about the coins and how to keep the slime where it belonged.

The carpet, back at home, had no idea it was part of the conversation.