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much better at it, but don’t let anyone know I
feel like that.”
Jay was surprised. Ella was a good leader.
She had good ideas. She knew how to keep
everyone safe. She could work out what
people were thinking and what they needed.
Jay could hardly ever work out what people
were thinking or what they needed unless they
told him.
Five minutes later Jay was tucked up in his
blanket. He had never slept out in the open
before and the ground felt hard and lumpy. He
had wrapped the blanket all around himself,
like a sleeping bag, and tried to get
comfortable. An orange glow from the camp
fire lit up the dusty path and the sleeping
group. An eerie silence had fallen and now the
only sound was the night calling of strange
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