#20 Into The Unknown

Ezra entered the room and looked around curiously. The room offered quite a different atmosphere from the stairs and corridor that he had come from, but he found that he kind of liked it. It was cosy.

The room left him with the urge to sprawl out on the rug with a book to conduct whatever research had caught his attention at the moment. The rug looked perfect for that actually, like one of the best study spots that he could dream up.

Instead of giving in to that urge though, he allowed his previous curiosity to run free and pull him further into the room to see more.

He saw a table, but before he made it all the way to see what it held his eyes caught sight of a goose instead.

"Hi, Mr Goo-" he said, crouching down near it to get a better look, only to fall back on his bottom in shock when the goose hiccupped fiery embers. "Oh!"

That was unexpected. Could all geese breathe fire?

He eyed the goose and decided that no, he did not fancy being set on fire that day. So it was probably best not to disturb the sleeping creature. He made a mental note not to annoy any other geese that he may come across in the future either.. just in case.

Ezra carefully moved around the goose so that the armchair was between them and then finally turned his attention to the table and all that it held.

He looked over the cards, unable to help but smile at animal pictures that they held. A lion, a horse, and a.. sea lion? Seal? He wondered what the cards were for though?

Before he could get lost in fantasies of touching a card and turning in to the animal it showed, he decided to read the plaque. He whispered the words as he read them, still wary about waking up the fire breathing goose.

So he had to pick the odd one out! That was easy enough.

His first thought was the middle card, since that animal liked to swim. Only.. it was not swimming in the picture so did it count? Ezra decided not to risk it and moved on to examining their other differences.

Finally he reached out and pushed the lion card forward.

"The lion's the odd one," he said, nodding his head firmly at his decision. "Because the other two are in front of water!"