“Rise and shine, everyone!”
Quickly pulling away the large veil covering the girl’s terrarium, she excitedly greets the occupants inside.
“I bet you guys are hungry, aren’t you?” She asks matter-of-factly. Walking to the small closet in the corner of her room, she grabs a packet of food and a pale of water.
“And it looks like your lake is almost all dried up! You guys must be thirsty!” The girl exclaims, ripping open the food packet as she pulls back the small square door at the top the glass dome.
Holding the packet over the center of the little community of creatures, the girl shakes it until all the tiny morsels of food have fallen out. Watching her pets scramble toward the newly dropped food, she smiles as she pours water into the side of the dome where a pond-like crevice has been dug.
“Drink up, teenie weenies!” She cheerfully says, closing the lid.
As she places the water pale back in the closet, she notices that one of the tiny creatures is laying underneath a group of mini tree-like plants, not moving.
“Oh no!” She cries. “Not again!”
Placing her hands on the glass to lean over the dome, she looks down at the recently deceased pet.
“I told you all to stop fighting!” She tersely shouts. “Why can’t you just get along?”
Returning to the closet, the girl reaches in and grabs a long, skinny pole with a tong on the end. Re-opening the glass lid, she nabs the dead creature and chucks it outside her open window onto the lawn below.
“If I find out which one of you keeps doing this, you’re gonna be in big trouble!” She asserts, holding the tong up. “Now ya’ll behave while I’m gone!”
Closing the lid once more, she puts the tong back in the closet, exiting the room to spend the day outside.
How the World Should Work 