“Come through, but please remove your shoes and put on the protective footwear.”
Ethan and Crumble looked down. There, on an ordinary shoe- rack to their left was a collection of, surprise surprise, shoes, but unlike the ordinary shoe-rack, the ordinariness of which was plain to see, the shoes themselves were far from ordinary. In fact they were an extremely long way from ordinary. Actually, they were so far from ordinary, it was as if ordinary had handed in its notice, gotten into a car, and taken a very long drive. (Ordinarily, I wouldn't use the word ordinary so much but I felt that it was relevant on this occasion because the shoes were extraordinarily out of the ordinary).
“What extraordinary shoes,” said Crumble as he bent down to get a pair. He very quickly stood up again. “Um, Et
