FORGOTTEN IDENTITY
His report at dinner was characteristically Eli, which was to say precise, organized by topic, and containing several pieces of information that none of us had anticipated.
"Mr. Adeyemi knows about beetles," he announced, with the satisfied gravity of someone whose specific preparatory question had been answered beyond expectation. "He has a book about them. He showed me at lunchtime."
"At lunchtime?" I asked carefully, reading between the lines of this.
"I asked him," Eli said simply. "During the lunch break. He was in the classroom and I had a question."
"What was the question?" Killian asked.
"Whether there was anyone in the school who knew about insects," Eli said. "He said he didn't kno
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