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beside him. Where did she get her energy

            from?

               “How long have you been travelling?” Jay

            asked.

               Flick looked puzzled for a moment.

               “I don’t know,” she said. She looked back at

            her father, Binny, who was still walking behind

            them. He had one eye on the path ahead and

            one on the bushes to the side of them. It was

            as though he was expecting something bad to

            spring out at them.

               “Two months,” he replied grumpily. “But it

            feels more like two years.”

               Rosie laughed.

               “Don’t be an old grouch!” she said. “The

            journey hasn’t been that bad!”

               Jay thought about how many times he’d

            played The Journey and how many times the


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