I hit the triangle and replayed the clip.

Jack said, “He made it all from drawings, didn’t he?”

“Incredible.”

“It’s jerky, that’s the only thing. Couldn’t he have blended them better?”

“No!” I clapped him on the arm and he didn’t pull away. “I love the way even things that are supposed to be standing still are moving.”

“I guess so,” he said.

“Each thing has a ghost around it, from where he erased the last drawing. Everything looks like it’s made out of mistakes.”

Miss Sedge said nothing, just sat there smiling openly like she had spent a long time winding up a special toy and was getting a kick out of watching it go. I’d had no idea she knew anything about art.

“That’s what you can do with your drawings, Maddy. Animate them.”

Antonio,

English and art are my favorite subjects. I like science too, but mostly because I have the most amazing science teacher, Miss Sedge. I’m doing some serious biology this year. Plus I am interested in the environment. I am going on a march against the Keystone Pipeline in October.

I don’t know what I want to do, I mean as a career or a job or whatever. They had these career advice sessions last year at school that got me panicked. How are we supposed to know? I have lots of questions for you, though. For example: How tall are you? What are your hobbies? What are my grandmother, grandfather, uncles, aunts, cousins in Spain like? What are Oscar and Daniel like? What are you trying to find out about the brain? How do you do the research—in a lab, or by examining people? Have you read The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat?

Maddy

Dear Maddy,

As a scientist I am gravely concerned about what we are doing to the earth. We need young people to get involved. It is your world we are destroying. You are right, we need to rethink our place in the natural world with a little (a lot!) more humility. We can’t count on science to get us out of trouble. It is dangerous to think we can. The earth will survive, no matter what we do to it, but we might not be here to enjoy it!