“Yes indeed” the timbre was sophisticated. He continued: “Do you think that chickens can see into the ‘other worlds’?"
“Could you please repeat the question?” she nervously asked, biding time, dismayed at being caught off guard.
“Well, er, Mr … ”
“Black” he said calmly - as though he expected to be taken seriously. “Can chickens see spiritual phenomena? he pressed: are they clairvoyant?”
“That really is a very interesting question Mr Black - can I ask what made you think of it?”
“In my opinion sparrows can see the invisibles - most breeds do - but I have not been able to say with certainty that the chicken, hen or rooster is so qualified. It's their brains you see - very flighty. They do say that the rooster can feel the sunrise as it approaches, and its healing forces infill his song.”
Eve paused to think - her show was interrupted conveniently by a local sponsor’s advertisement.
The stranger kept talking: “The dog is dead, Albert is in Bermuda, and the nagging spirit is not his wife, but his mother.”
"Click"- the phone-line died.
Eve hurriedly shuffled her papers to find the one she had prepared earlier to read to her audience … she bit her lip - its subject was ‘psychic animals’. How could the caller have known?
She laughed when all of a sudden she recognized who was at the other end of the line - somehow she just knew it was that crazy spirit that had wandered into her apartment a few days before, and now it appeared he was back.
-Gabriel Brunsdon, Finding Self - Second Guesses: Azlander Series
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