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“Flick!” Binny whispered.

Yes, it was Flick. The Groundlings had her

alright. Then Binny was first over the edge. He

lowered himself down on to the first ledge.

“It’s not too bad,” he said, looking up at the

others. “There are steps and you can hold on

to the one above as you go down.”

“Oh well that’s okay then!” Ella joked.

“Nothing to it.”

Jay found the climb downwards difficult at

first. He kept banging his knees on the rough

sides of the tunnels and loose dirt kept getting

in his eyes. There was a horrible smell too -

like rotten vegetables.

“Yuk!”

“Just keep going,” Binny called up to him.

“Nearly at the bottom.”

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