Emily found herself talking to Tubby as if they were old friends picking up right where they left off. “You really scared me, buddy,” she chuckled, watching as the tortoise blinked slowly in response. “I thought you were a ghost or something!”
Tubby, of course, didn’t answer, but there was a certain wisdom in his silence, as if she held secrets that Emily was yet to discover. Perhaps, Emily thought, it was the simplicity of Tubby’s existence that brought everything back into focus.