Origami
Atlanta fetches a packet of square “papers,” coloured on one side, at the end of my tale. She takes a green one from the lot, then makes certain folds – big and small, angled and not – on it.
“An origami frog,” she writes on the paper set aside for our communication at the end of her baffling activity, before showing me the… green thing… that was a piece of flat paper, set side by side with the picture of a similar animal on one of her highly coloured books.
“An… ori-gami frog?” I mouth, even more baffled than before.
She quirks a smile. “You fold paper in certain ways to make something from it. It is called origami. Good puzzle game. Easy to play too. You just need a piece of paper. You can even invent your own shapes.”
Well, I always like puzzle games. And I could teach the quieter children who like to congregate round me when I take a jaunt in Gladsheim this thing….
`Damn. I thought I was repaying her. Now I am even more indebted to her for this.`
But the excited look that might appear on those children’s faces once I introduce this to them….