Tannis also dreamed , totally contrary to all the accepted and adhered to laws of entemology and thermodynamics and worm hibernification.
There was a reason that she dreamed and the reason was Sarah. Sarah had been very affected by the sight of her Gramma flailing her hoe weapon at the worms and telling them to "buzz off" and as far as Sarah could tell not even one of them had listened.
Sarah made pictures whenever she was trying to make a solution to a problem and the entire time at her nursery school easel she had been muttering away to herself.
"You creepy worms you better listen...you buzz off when you wake up in the spring. Don't even shake the dirts outta your sleeping bags. just zip up the flap and march right outta here.
Buzz off, Jennifer, buzz off Sandy, buzz off LIna and Tannis."
Deep in cocoony sleep , Tannis had the only kind of dream an army worm can have. A marching dream and her dream was coupled with the greatest marching songs she had thought of ever. January turned to February turned to the beginnings of spring and still the army worms slept. In the midst of hundreds and indeed hundreds of thousands of tents, Tannis' little worm brain dreamed her little worm dreams. Always the same dream..."Move out, move out, MOVE OUT"
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