This was now, officially, the weirdest thing Milo had ever seen. Previously, the weirdest thing Milo had ever seen was on a school field trip down to the city, where from the bus he had watched a homeless man pull a rotten banana from a garbage can and bite into it, skin and all. The brownish-yellow pulp had splurted out the back end of the banana and oozed down the man’s hand, and every kid on the bus, including Milo, all went “EWWWWW!” at the same time. But the banana incident now seemed downright ordinary compared to the sudden black Orb.