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Chapter One
Bad news
Tom didn’t usually like running, but today
he couldn’t get his legs to go fast enough.
Out of the playground entrance, down the
pavement, over the crossing and into the
next street.
“Slow down a bit, can’t you?” puffed Lucy,
trying to keep up. “Can’t we just walk?”
Just walk? No way could they just walk.
They had to get there as soon as possible.
The text message had said: ‘cm kwik’. It
could be urgent. It probably was urgent.
Gran had never sent Tom a text saying
‘cm kwik’ before. Anything could have
happened and, well, when someone sends
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