I bet you’re the smartest person here.” Teddy raised his eyebrows, still smiling, and shook his head. He had stopped crying. “No. Not even close. Have you talked to some of these kids? Some of the other ‘Fishies’?” “No. What?” “They’re all geniuses. At my train station, one of the chaperones was asking everyone about their accomplishments. Do you see that girl, right next to the railing? She’s looking out onto the water. Blonde hair. She’s worth millions. She invents kitchen gadgets—knifes, things that chop your vegetables. She even invented a machine that will clean your fish for you, season them, fry them, and then cleanly dispose of the waste. Isn’t that remarkable? And the boy with the long blonde hair, sitting in the front. I don’t know if you can see him right now, but anyways, he won the high school national debate championship as a freshman in high school.
