it was like a dam exploding for amanda , and what poured out of her was her joy and excitement and all the details of her own beautiful horse , and the incredible injured snowy owl , and the climbing rose blooming in the black granary bin , and the horse was called sweet cream , and she would called it sweetie , and the owl was called tundra , and had the biggest eyes she had ever seen in the world and they looked right at you like it could read your thoughts , and some madman had shot it and it needed to have antiseptic ointment applied every day , and it needed to be fed little strips of steak , and maybe laura might help her feed tundra sometimes , if it wasnt too much trouble .