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- Authors: Ali K. Mulford
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Hawk
I clanged my metal water bottle against the steel railing.
“Ladies! Let’s go!” I called up the stairwell, shouting to be heard over
the chorus of lemurs just beyond the window.
No amount of animal noise could wake one of us up.
I debated pouring a bucket of water on my sisters’ faces to get them out
of bed. After all, the floors in our house did have drains in them since this
was once a capuchin monkey enclosure. Maybe I could just hose them out
of bed . . .
The lions were already roaring for their breakfast, their early morning
impatience matching my own. The gibbons had been whooping since four
a.m., and at five a.m., I’d finally admitted to myself that I was too awake to
sleep another half hour until my alarm rang.
Such was the life of a zookeeper, waking up before the sun. But the
hardest animals in the entire zoo to wrangle were my six younger siblings,
well, five now that Lark had moved to New Zealand with her Kiwi
boyfriend. Since Lark left, I’d taken up the mantle of most stressed-out
sibling. We had one week until the first day of summer, and I was going to
have a nervous breakdown if everything wasn’t perfect.
“I hate you,” Finch grumbled, stumbling down the grate stairs in a
sports bra and baggy scrub pants. She rubbed the palm of her tattooed hand
in her eye socket. “And if you call me lady again, Hawk, I’m going to swap
Pippin’s castration surgery today for yours.”
“Good morning to you too,” I said, taking another bracing sip of toostrong bean water. “Eggs are ready. Coffee’s made.”
Finch yanked on her Prickle Island Zoo-branded shirt, covering half of
her tatted arms. She blinked at me, cocking her head like a curious lorikeet.
“Eggs? Coffee? Who are you and what have you done with Hawk?”
I shrugged, ignoring the jab. “It’s the first day of summer next week.
The front-of-house staff will be arriving tomorrow and the volunteers soon
after. I just want to make sure everything is right.”
Finch folded her arms. “This is about the Westworths’ ultimatum, isn’t
it?”
My gut plummeted even at their name. We had until the end of summer
to prove that Prickle Island Zoo was financially successful enough to
support itself without our long-time, wealthy benefactors. If we didn’t, the
Westworths would sell the zoo my ancestors built to another rich patron
instead of giving it to us like they had promised my father before he died.
It all came down to these next three months.
“Everything hinges on this summer,” I said, sculling back another cup
of black coffee before Finch reached out and yanked the mug from my
shaking hands.
“I don’t know,” Dove said, stumbling down the stairwell. Her lavendertipped brunette hair was tied up in a messy bun, her wire-rim glasses askew.
“I think we need a miracle to make
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