Maria Gloove showed her ambition. She did not intend to lose the critical opportunity that would help her to prove that she was the best student of the Second Graders. Although she was ahead of the garden she was examining, she knew best the strength of the monster that was approaching step by step behind her.
"Mel didn't participate. Why?"
The movement of the Plant Division rising star did not go unnoticed by the audience, who turned their full attention to him.
"If you jumped forty gardens in a year and they put you behind someone who jumped three gardens, you wouldn't have moved your finger either!"
Although the purpose of the burly teenager was different, that was the watchers' thoughts. They thought that he was protesting the rankings, and they were not alone. Conversations in the audience rows reciprocated as glances in the management pyramid, but the person sitting at the top of the pyramid would do more than that.
