Now, however, the sky was very dark off to the west, and every time the lightning flashed, the dark shape of the mountains would briefly appear.
“C’mon, rain!” shouted Armpit. “Blow this way!”
“Maybe it’ll rain so hard it will fill up the whole lake,” said Squid. “We can go swimming.”
“Forty days and forty nights,” said X-Ray. “Guess we better start building us an ark. Get two of each animal, right?”
“Right,” said Zigzag. “Two rattlesnakes. Two scorpions. Two yellow-spotted lizards.”
The humidity, or maybe the electricity in the air, had made Zigzag’s head even more wild-looking.
His frizzy blond hair stuck almost straight out. The horizon lit up with a huge web of lightning.
In that split second Stanley thought he saw an unusual rock formation on top of one of the mountain peaks.
The peak looked to him exactly like a giant fist, with the thumb sticking straight up.
Then it was gone. And Stanley wasn’t sure whether he’d seen it or not.
“I found refuge on God’s thumb.” That was what his great-grandfather had supposedly said
after Kate Barlow had robbed him and left him stranded in the desert.
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