The Wild Tiger and the Answer Bot: Where the Answer Lies

Blaze is a nine-year-old Bengal tiger who knows a lot. He knows that petrichor is the smell of rain on dry earth, that clouds form through a process called nucleation, that obsidian is technically a glass and not a rock, and that the cutting edge of an obsidian blade can be one molecule thick. He knows these things because once he starts reading about something he cannot stop until he has read everything there is to read about it.

What he cannot do is stop himself from saying it out loud.

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