Felix Month 2020

Day 5: Summer Job

Felix hadn't thought he would spend his summer working, or rather volunteering, at a museum, especially not one in Paris. Yet here he was, standing amongst the artefacts in the National Museum of Natural History, trying to avoid another horde of young children being led around the room by their teacher. Every time one of them came near him, he winced away from their grabbing hands.

"Felix, could you help carry something in for a moment?" The cheery museum curator appeared out of nowhere, something she seemed to do quite a bit. Her name slipped his mind, as most names did, but he still respected her enough to listen to him. After all, looking after sixty-eight million specimens took some work.

"Coming." Happy for the temporary relief, Felix dodged his way through the crowd, following the curator. At least this was something to do with his time.

They arrived in the storage room and Felix immediately noticed the large box waiting in the corner. The curator gestured to the crate with wide, sweeping arm motion. "Everything in this crate is the start of a new interactive science display. We need to have the first section unpacked and ready to install for tomorrow. You're the only volunteer I could find, and you're trustworthy enough."

A trickle of pride shot through Felix's veins at being called trustworthy. Of course, he was trustworthy, he was a Graham de Vanily, they were the epitome of trustworthiness. "Where are they being moved to?"

"Just down the hall a bit, you saw the empty rooms when you arrived, right? They're going in there."

Felix nodded and moved the top of the crate to reveal its contents. Inside there was a large sheet of thick plastic with a title on it, naming the interactive exhibit as the 'Atom Builder Game'. It looked like something that a child would enjoy, but to Felix, it was garish and hard to look at. Oh well, he wouldn't be working here for long and could go back to his comfortable, normal life when summer was over.

Hopefully, this was a one-time thing, because in less than two months Felix had decided that he was not cut out to work in a museum at all.