Jack and the Geniuses #3: Lost in the Jungle

Jack and the Geniuses #3: Lost in the Jungle — page 9
platform to listen Whoever was up there in the biosphere wasn’t trying very hard to be quiet Once or twice he shouted another curse but I couldn’t quite understand the swear I flicked the switch for the stairs to the next platform and we kept moving quietly and carefully winding clockwise around the interior walls as we ascended Each platform had its own focus One was all about growing and harvesting cells The second was a robotics workshop Then there was a clean room for experiments that couldn’t be contaminated with all the miniature bugs and microbes that crawl around the normal world a tiny greenhouse a 3-D printing shop and finally the biosphere We stopped on the platform below outside the 3-D printing room On the wall next to me was a painful reminder of one of the geniuses most successful pranks There was a hook and a hanger and a sign above them that read Invisibility Cloak I’m too ashamed to explain But the supposed cloak wasn’t there anyway so we’ll move on Something splashed in the room above If either my brother or my sister had suddenly decided this whole strategy strategy was a bad idea and that we should turn back and call for help I wouldn’t have protested But no one was ready to run so I reached out and flipped the switch We waited as the steps whooshed out of the walls then crept up The intruder muttered Then he began to hum a tune 6 Bill Nye and Gregory Mone