The angel begins to giggle loudly as she waves her hands about, her whole body shaking threateningly. She claps her hands sharply, and before Ato can say Jack Robinson, he finds himself buckled fast into what seems like a seat on a roller-coaster ride with a protective cylindrical iron bar that has soft padding on it almost touching his chest. Sunshine sits right next to him, wearing a daisy yellow race car helmet, a pair of safety laboratory goggles with bright green plastic rims, and a bright fuchsia scarf wound twice around her neck, the two frilly ends floating behind her. Ato feels his face and head; he also seems to be wearing a protective helmet, goggles and a scarf.“Are you ready?” Sunshine asks. The roller-coaster seat begins to purr like a really fat cat which has just had a nice dinner. The purring changes and sounds like a tractor. Ato can tell because he lives in the country and sees tractors all the time.
“Wait!” Ato shouts above the rising din. He raises his right hand and screams, “In the Sunshine mobile, to infinity and beyond. Up, up and away.” Ato winks at her.
“Does it mean you are ready?” Sunshine asks.
“Go, go, go!”
The roller-coaster seat shoots off at an incredible speed in the starry sky and this time instead of a fat cat or a tractor, it roars like a train, a locomotive engine.
“Yuwhuuuuuu!” Ato screams, holding unto the protective bar for dear life with one hand while waving the other above his head like a cowboy getting ready to lasso a stubborn cow.
“Look. It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s Superman. Wrong! It’s Ato and Sunshine. Yuwhuuuuuu.”
Sunshine breaks into peals of laughter.
“Sunshine, you rock!” Ato shouts.
“Oh dear, am I turning into a stone?” The angel is worried.
“No, silly. I mean you are the best thing ever.”
“Well in that case, Ato, you are a mountain, because a mountain is a million times bigger than a rock and you are the bestest, bestest, bestest thing ever,” the angel screams.
Ato breaks into laughter.
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