Luna squinted her golden-brown eyes at the board. "So if I have three baskets with five… bones… in each, that's… three times five?"
Alina smiled proudly. "Yes! Exactly, Luna! And how many bones is that in total?"
Luna's cheeks puffed up as she counted on her fingers, lips moving silently. "Five… ten… fifteen." She looked up, pretending she didn't care, but the tiniest grin tugged at her lips. "Fifteen bones."
Kelpie, who was half-hiding behind his notebook, raised his small hand shyly. "Teacher… if… if I have ten fishes… and each fish has two tails… is that ten times two?"
Drake gasped. "Why does fish have two tails?!"
Kelpie squeaked, hiding his face behind his book again. "Because… because they're magic fish…" he mumbled.
Alina chuckled softly. "Yes, Kelpie. That's right — ten fish, two tails each, so ten times two equals twenty tails."
