![]() ![]() After a while, his grandfather had stopped talking, and they'd driven down the lonely two-lane highway in silence. ![]() He'd shrugged when his grandfather had asked, "How was your flight?" He'd nodded when his grandfather had asked, "Are you hungry?" He'd looked away when his grandfather had said, "I bet you miss your parents." But not a single word had come out of Ben. But it was true that he hadn't spoken since being picked up at the airport. "I was beginning to think you'd swallowed your tongue."īenjamin Silverstein, age ten, had not swallowed his tongue. "So, you've got a voice after all," his grandfather said. Ben pressed his nose to the passenger window. Something was moving between the clouds-something with an enormous wingspan and a long tail. ![]() Ben blinked once, twice, three times, just in case an eyelash had drifted onto his eyeball. ![]()
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