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I was right. Deli's fur is growing in now and it's black-and-white. Deli looks like one of those fancy pigs that some people keep as pets, only about the size of my thumb and much cuter.
Egram and I finished building the mouse hutches for my project display, all fastened together in a neat little cabinet. I will be showing one each: white mouse (with a flat coat), squiggle mouse (also white), black mouse, fawn-and-white mouse, black-and-white mouse. Teacher Vretho says I'm allowed to get help building stuff that just displays my work, like the hutches, but not with any of the actual project. So Dad helped me make a folding board with three pieces to stand behind the hutches, but I have to do all the drawings myself. I don't think my art is all that good. I enjoy art sessions in school, though. Maybe I should take an art class when I get into Second Form.
Anyway, the left side of the board shows my frassy drawings of the mice and their colors plus the squiggle mouse. It has little charts showing when I got each kind of mouse and how many I have. The middle is the biggest part and it has a family tree showing Jiju's descendents and another showing Deli's ancestors. The right side has some grids showing how the parents' genes can combine. These are just easy 2x2 grids. There are fancier ones that show more stuff but I haven't figured out how all that works yet.
Then there's the big notebook I made to explain the whole project. I wrote out my main idea -- what Teacher Vretho calls a "thesis" -- and then I copied my supporting materials. I used my own journal entries about the mice, quotes from books, and some of the pages from the mouse stud books where it shows how I bred the mice displayed in the hutches. It took me hours and hours to copy all that but I don't mind because it looks really scientific.
The judging is later this tenday and I'm so scared and excited I can hardly tell which is which.
See the landing page for "Squiggles: Excerpts from Nleimen's Journal."
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Thank you!
April 1 2013, 22:32:07 UTC 8 years ago
The first part of the story is almost done, after which it will be collected and posted on Torn World -- there are four parts total. You can see how the action is starting to get a little more complex now.