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At noon, the duck was placed on the teacher’s desk, and the room dimmed for story time. Ms. Ortega read a book about constellations and courage. The kids leaned toward the paper duck as if gravity had just learned to care. When she asked them what courage looked like, hands were shot up like sparklers. A boy named Mateo said courage looked like telling your mother you drew on the wall. A girl named Hani said it looked like saving your sister's goldfish.

Other ducks began to appear. The art teacher at St. Agnes borrowed the idea and made "courage nests" from old magazines. A group of middle-schoolers bound paper into little boats and left them in the river with notes to people they’d hurt. Sometimes the animals quacked; sometimes they did not. The important thing was the motion—folding paper, whispering truth, setting it down somewhere safe. duckquackprepcom exclusive

Olive nodded, then, with a look like she carried a small planet in her chest, she unbuttoned her coat and placed it over the duck. The duck didn’t quack again. Instead, the room grew softer, like a page being turned. At noon, the duck was placed on the