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The Sounds That Make You Sit Bolt Upright in Your Bed and Dart Your Eyes Around the Room and Wonder ‘Would This Be a Good Time to Yell Out For Mum and Dad?’
Their bellies were full, their legs were heavy, their feet were sore and their heads whirled like leaves in a tornado. Unfortunately, after just a few hours of fitful resting the children had been awakened by the frosty evening air. They gave up on sleep and sat in frozen silence for a long time. Zeb shivered as he lay beneath his slightly too-thin-to-be-quite-warm-enough jacket on the cold stone floor of the cave. He stoked the fire back into life as he thought about how he missed his bed, his room, his house, his mother and even, to his great surprise, her cooking.
“What are we going to do when we find Smokey, Zeb?”
“I haven’t
