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20 Across the next two pages were drawings of skeletons.
21 The first one was human, I saw that clearly enough, the rib cage, the
hips, the skull atop the neck. Next to it was a skeleton that looked at first
glance not so very much different. Except the hands. The bones of the
fingers were all long and flared. It was freakish to look at, until I read
Benjamin Molloy’s caption underneath: Bat. Next to this was a third
skeleton, and it seemed some sort of bizarre combination of the two.
Shortened legs, like the bat, and instead of arms, the same weirdly flared
finger bones of the bat. But the skull on this one was no bat’s; nor was it
human. The skull was flatter, with sharp teeth. Smaller, yes, but certainly no
one would mistake this for a bat, and never for a bird. The drawings were
made with scientific care, all shaded and with a length scale to the side. He
was a clever man, Kate’s grandpa, no questioning that. Seemed to know
something about everything. Underneath were all sorts of Latin words.
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