Irvin Holden brought a rectangular wooden table out onto the deck and laid out all the knives from the kitchen.
Amused to see Sherman Lynch and her father, Caleb Bloom, eagerly rubbing their hands, Flora Bloom took out three more large pearl oysters. She gave two to them and tossed the last one to Irvin Holden.
Sherman Lynch took the paring knife Irvin Holden handed him and jammed it into the gap between the two halves of the shell. The blade went in halfway, but the oyster's clamping force was astonishing. It gripped the knife so tightly that no matter how Sherman Lynch struggled, he couldn't budge the blade an inch.
Flora Bloom cringed inwardly at the sight. 'Sherman Lynch is a superpower user, for crying out loud. He's way stronger than a normal person, but he can't even pry open this giant oyster?'
She glanced over at her mother, who was probing the edge of her own shell with a dagger, trying to find a gap, but was completely unable to pierce it.
