At what point does this passage from “The Zoo” shift into a flashback? The manticores looked miserable. She wondered if it was because of the heat. They had human faces, or almost human, and sleek lion bodies, but they were so hot and tired-looking that Emily wondered if they would die soon. Her mother flinched every time the phone rang. Together they watched 24-hour news channels that told how hot it was in Tikrit and Baghdad and Fallujah, places Emily pinned on a map. She wondered how hot it was here, if they were keeping it so hot to make the manticores feel at home, but then she thought they must have overdone it, or maybe it was the humidity here, because the manticores looked on the verge of death.
A. with Emily wondering how hot it was in Iraq
B. with the description of the manticores C. with the return of Emily’s focus to the manticores
D. with Emily’s mother flinching when the phone rang​