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Hyde-n-Seek“You found it!” Linda, smiling jubilantly and waving a waterproof lantern, rushed forward. Her left cheek sported dirt shaped like a top hat while the tip of her ski-slope nose missed a couple of layers of skin.
Rey raced in from behind, followed by Prunella and then May-Lee.
“What? The room?” I grabbed the intense light and switched it off. I was already suffering from partial hearing loss, no thanks to good ol’ Perc, so partial blindness wasn’t on the rest of the agenda.
“The entrance to the hidden passageway.” She motioned the corridor from which they’d emerged.
“It was you who found it.” Peering past her shoulder, I viewed only exaggerated shadows and darkness. I motioned the opposite wall. “We came across the other one during our travels.”
“They actually loop arou
