paper clips

His fingers wrapped themselves around a pile of paperclips, and he pulled them out, immediately twisting them into different shapes, chaining them together, and running his fingers over their cold metal surface. He could see that Mister Hahn had a rough, long night, due to the bags under his eyes, obviously signs of lack of sleep, though he had tried to cover it up by drinking numerous cups of coffee, as Reynard could tell from the glazed over look in Mister Hahn’s eyes, the stains on his jacket, and the jittery movements of his hands as he swept them across his desk. - Reynard Benedict has a freakish sense of observance, and so when he was thirteen he was sent to live with Mister Hahn, a German scientist who promised an advanced education. Five years later, he and two other children, December and Draven Springer, start hearing rumors of crime across the city - crime they start to investigate because of curiosity. Curiosity killed the cat, as they always say...