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Amabile
Page 108
Morey sat back on his heels, pulse quickening; not with fear, but with the strange, electric sense that his disappointing journey had just become the prologue to something else entirely.
Morey deduced that the box came from a girl he shared biology class with; Zoe. He couldn’t be 100% certain, but there was zero harm in being wrong. She was more than competent with surveillance devices, and less than competent with inter-personal reactions. But, she read and at times tried to enact the lengths of her books. ...... Cute. ....... Pursued and unimpeded this could be far more interesting than the meta abstraction of cultural diversity.
For the first time in ages Morey looked forward to school the next day.
Morey showed up a full twenty minutes before biology class, which for him was practically a personal record in punctuality. The hallway outside Room 214 still smelled faintly of disinfectant and pencil shavings, the kind of scent that made him feel like he was trespassing in a space not yet awake. His tail twitched in small, nervous arcs as he paced.