When the glass ceiling is ice and melts

The idea that a silk laden albatross can cross a city's central square and be noticed only by two unrelated single digitally aged children comes as no surprise to this author. It helps that that square was completely bereft of occupants apart from the two young friends who were passing through as was the bird.

Why that square should be empty at a time that two young children (and a bird) are there may be worrying to the reader, but the author knows better.

If it wasn't for the fish in the room, there'd be