It’s time for a reality check. Another character becomes involved.
For a moment he thought he had imagined it, the teacher disappearing. For a moment he thought he’d slipped into a daydream.
Sam turned to Mary Terrafino, who sat just to his left. “You saw that, right?”
Mary was staring hard at the place where the teacher had been.
Nothing’s clear yet. The new character isn’t helpful.
Can you find the same pattern in these examples?
This was annoying. The darkness meant delays. So annoying!
He knew she wouldn’t know, but Noah couldn’t help himself. “How long until they fix the lights?” he asked in the operator’s general direction.
“I’m sure they’ll work it out soon, sir,” she drawled, sounding as bored about the blackout as she had before it happened.
She put the milk down. She knew she’d seen a dinosaur, but there was no way it was real. They’d talked about this in health class. There was a word for this, she just couldn’t remember what it was.
She took the tea in to her gran, who was sitting in her armchair watching a dating show and clucking her tongue in disapproval. “Nan, what’s the word for when you see things that aren’t there?”
“Crazy,” snapped Gran. “Starkers. Too much milk.”
