For children there are discovery trays, containing mouse bones and shells, and a facility for constructing arches.

Lying on my stomach on the floor, pushing the box under my cot, I found a tiny pile of mouse bones.

Sitting in the purple shadows, I pulled out the mouse bones and worked them between my fingers.

Next I gathered up the mouse bones that I'd kept in my pockets, realizing I didn't need to carry them around anymore.

I stared at them a minute, wondering how a person got attached to mouse bones.

Anyone could have said the same-without the mouse bones.

The women would gather around when Fraken dug into the owl pellets, pushing at the mouse bones until he could see into the future.

On the lowest step she knelt, and bowed her forehead down to the cold, dusty stone, littered with mouse bones dropped by the hunting owls.

Fraken teased it open with two sticks until tiny mouse bones were disclosed.

Anyone could have said the same- without the mouse bones.