Prompt: What in your life would you make sacrifices to protect?
Vocab Words (underlined): acumen, advocate (v), ambiguity, ascertain, alleged
Grammar Focus: its/it's, semicolon
Eliza Benjamin-
That night, I sat on my bed and stared around my new room. Gosh, this was weird. Nothing felt real yet; it was like we were on vacation or something. I wondered how long it would take for the move to sink in. And as I looked around the house, I'd seen maybe four spiders in it today. I flopped back on the bed as my mom came in.
"I see a giant, hairy monster," she said slowly. I glanced at the wall next to my head.
Make that five spiders.
Without hesitation, I grabbed my shoe off the floor and clapped it over the creature, leaving its tiny legs twitching. I had a certain acumen for bug-killing in my household, particularly because nobody else around could get up the guts to do it. Actually, my family generally advocated to not kill the giant, bed-infesting spiders, but I just had no tolerance for that.
"A giant hairy monster," I said to my mom. "Really. You couldn't just call it a spider?"
She smiled. "I was hoping you'd catch the ambiguity," she said.
"Oh. Oho! Thaaaaanks." I disposed of the spider and flopped back on my bed. "It's nice to see you care, mom. Especially after all the sacrifices I make to save the world from these eight-legged beasts!"
She just laughed. "It's difficult to ascertain whether we really need saving," she said. "Besides, what if that spider had a family?"
"What if everyone hated that spider and I've done their buggy little world a huge favor just by killing it?" I asked.
"What do you think it was, a warlord?"
I paused. "Yes," I said slowly. "Yes, I just took out one of the most feared warlords of the arachnid world."
"Without the lead of this alleged warlord, their world shall descend into an anarchy of power grabs," she said.
"Yes." Solemnly, I looked over at the trash can I'd dropped the spider in. "So it shall."
I think that I'm catching some references here.....
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