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“That’s a little far out,” Grimaldi said. “We checked every human, adult or child, who came near those schools during a month-long window. If it affected kids, it would have shown up.”
“Fair enough,” Luis said.
Grimaldi had gotten up and was taking plates to the sink, and Elaina got up as well, leaving just Luis, Darla, and Clarence at the table. Luis mused quietly, half-to himself:
“Unless the kids somehow figured out how to defraud the magnetic field camera.”
He shrugged, stood up, and carried his plate to the sink.
Darla, still chomping on gum, gave her younger brother a funny look.
Clarence raised his eyebrows as if to say, what?
Darla looked from side to side to confirm no one was watching. She stretched the gum in her mouth into a long strand.
Then s
