“well make yourself at home, u can place the tank over there and have a sit on the sofa. Owh, and the name is Stan,” he said with a charming smile. I did was I told quickly trying to hide my blush.
“well here is a can of soda, chill here for a moment while I Take a look at Pete.”
“Whats wrong with him Doc, I said teasingly as he examine Pete.”
He took the worm out and amazingly stubborn pete which never moved when I wanted it began to crawl up his wrist.
“ Tom, u don’t mind if I took Pete to a special room to examine him closely do you?” was stan’s reply as he was so fixiated with the worm.
“ Sure thing anything to get him better.” I replied and in that moment he rushed off to a room which I couldn’t see even before I could mouth the word I wanna follow too..
“ Well guess I will just wait here…” I mumbled…
Half an hour passed before Stan appeared back into the living room. Pete was dangling around his neck like a scarf. He placed Pete back into the tank and sat right in front of me.
He looked serious.
“Well im going to tell you a big secret, You must promise me u wont tell anybody, got it!”
Confused with the sudden change in atmosphere, “yeah sure. Why whats wrong ? is Pete going to die?” I squeaked.
“well No….maybe Yes…it depends on u only Now Tom.” Stan said.
“ What you mean? I Have tried everything to nurture pete back to health but he is one stubborn worm what more can I do?”
“ well u see Tom this Giant worms are special they need a very special environment to grow..”
“ I’ve tried everything ! damp wet dry humid… I just think it is one stubborn worm!”
“ Listen here! The it is impossible to get the environment correctly. They are a creature of specific needs! They need warm sometimes humid and lots of other factors… to create an incubator suited for them is impossible even with our technology.”