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off the bed cover he got up and walked over to

            his computer.

               Jay plopped himself down on his desk chair.

            The screen was already on. It must have

            switched itself back on after the power cut.

            There was one of those daft messages on the

            screen:

               A FATAL EXCEPTION HAS OCCURED

               It said something about the computer not

            having been switched off properly. What had

            happened? The Journey cd was still in the cd

            drive. Jay pressed the ENTER key. The

            computer buzzed and the screen flickered. He

            wasn’t that interested in playing. But maybe

            he could find a Tom lookalike and let the

            Groundlings capture him.

               When the game loaded the clock in the

            corner of the screen said three thirty. The


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