The secretary had gone to check the generator, leaving Mina with one instruction: if anyone came in, tell them to wait. He was small, maybe Year Seven, soaked through, holding a battered shoebox with both hands like it might crack. “Not closed,” Mina said. The writer uses figurative expression to create a sense of wonder with the ‘building [holding] its breath and the ‘rain stitch[ing] the parking lot. Magic is woven through the story through excellent use of punctuation, effective structural choices and dialogue that contributes to the sense of wonder.