Question

what is the narrators tone in this passage?
“payah kun,” said the eldest magician, meaning, “that is quite right”; and he breathed upon the great rocks and lumps of earth that all - the - elephant - there - was had thrown up, and they became the great himalayan mountains, and you can look them out on the map....
then the moon rose big and full over the water, and the eldest magician said to the hunchbacked old man who sits in the moon spinning a fishing - line with which he hopes one day to catch the world, “ho! fisher of the moon, are you playing with the sea?”
—“the crab that played with the sea,”
rudyard kipling
angry
informative
sorrowful
whimsical

Explanation:

The passage features a magical - like description with an old magician and a man in the moon spinning a fishing - line to catch the world. This fantastical and light - hearted description suggests a whimsical tone. There are no signs of anger, sorrow, and it is not simply presenting facts in an informative way.

Answer:

whimsical