The minerals and rocks didn’t stray from ancient scripts with regard to predictability.

“Oops …. butterfingers. Banjo jangle nervous.”

Fortunately she grasped one of specimens before it touched the ground.

Or crash landed! 

But what was really a niggle and taunt for Magnolia was when the two professors drifted about the hall squirming mischievously?

Was there something  afoot or what exactly was often impossible to fathom.

Godfrey and Gina ostrich dropped hints during lectures as was there wont.

At an earlier phase in their career they could be accused of being too lenient and far too lenient at that.

Trends also appeared in their theory and laboratory tests to suggest that if precedent is any guide.

It normally often is regarding university trials, projects, thesis submission and every other kind of obstacle a student like magnolia in that torturous mountain archaicly referred to as higher education.

“And I must attend to that crystallography question too, three, four, five before my time allotment has expired.”

Gina Ostrich decided to lean over and peer at the candidates progress or lack of it.

Nothing intimidating but would say sometimes it’s a tilt  in the right direction.

“This time out as I loitered over this rogue slide .. neither Godfrey or Gina said that but cast an astute shrewd gaze at me