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“I’ve had quite enough of danger for a while I think.”
They set out early, just as the sun began to clamber over the horizon. Flip said she had always believed that dawn was some sort of made-up fairy tale because NO ONE should ever be up that early—it was probably bad for your health. Zeb smiled and kept walking, checking the map every now and then to make sure that they stayed on course.
Zeb and Flip had always loved walking in the woods; searching for berries, playing knights and dragons, drawing and making secret music by banging logs with sticks far away from the ears of the Admonishers. Their journeying today, however, would take them further from home than either of them had ever been before. They found this to be both terrifying and very, very exciting.
“Are we there yet Zeb
