The Supernaturalist, Eoin Colfer. Cycle 19 Reading Response, 32-47

Summary:
I read pages 32-47. Cosmos wakes up finding himself in some apartment to find the girl from the roof looking over him. The girl, Mona explained to him what happened and told him about how he had to go under major surgery by Ditto, the young boy from the roof. His body was morphed and changed like Frankenstein. His head was shaved and a metal plate was visible on his head. Mona told him how Ditto was a Bartoli baby. Bartoli babies were from a genetic experiment ran by Doctor Ferdinand Bartoli who tried to create super humans. The Bartoli babies had a growth defect, so even though Ditto looked like he was 6, he was actually 28. Cosmos quickly back to sleep, later waking up again to the apartment empty. He sat up and looked around the apartment, till the door bursted open with Ditto and Stefan (the other one from the roof) bearing a shopping trolley before them with Mona inside of it. Her skin was greenish tinge and she was shiver violently. Mona had been shot with a poisonous dart from the police. Cosmos used his expertise with being a no-sponsor tester and remembered what he had used to cure himself of it when they tested the dart on him back at the orphanage. Cosmos saved Mona. Afterward he was introduced to everyone. The three call themselves Supernaturalists. They hunt down the blue creatures that had attacked Cosmos earlier. He learned that he was a spotter; a spotter is someone that could see the blue creatures, they usually get this sight during a near death-experience.

Pungent- Having a strongly taste or smell
Depolarized-Reduced or removed polarization of

Diary Entry #1:
Well I have never written a diary entry before, because they never really allowed us to have our own possession back at the orphanage, but I heard people write these to help direct their confusion and frustration out. Everything is weird, being out here in this new world. I have never been out of the orphanage before. These people that I have met, why are they hunting these creatures down? Why do they put their own lives in danger? I hope to get these questions, answered soon. I also wonder if I’ll be accepted by them. I have always been just forced to interact with someone else, never of my own free will. I hope that they accept me and don’t send me back to the orphanage. Well I don’t really know what else to write about, I hope to update this as make my way through this new world.