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Fox stood at the edge of the forest looking at the Complex. There was still a hint of concern about radiation but Wren had been in there several times and she was all right. He was 99% sure that it was safe. He hadn’t had to go to the trouble of shimmying through a makeshift tunnel like his sister had done; he wasn’t grounded. He knew that if his father knew what he was up to he’d be in very big trouble, but his dad didn’t suspect that his son would disobey him too.
Wren had said that Jerome lived in the third block on the right. He checked that nobody had followed him and sprinted across the field until he reached the inspection hatch to Jerome’s apartment. He unfastened the door and climbed inside, his heart beating a little faster. He’d wanted adventure and now he’d it.
He opened
