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Chapter Twenty-Four — The Word That Means Go

作者: Ava Sterling
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"Otter," I said.

Rhys dropped the spoon he was holding and went. Straight off the step, round the corner, into the gap behind the woodbox where the boards come up — two years old and he did it without one backward look, exactly the way we have practised it since he could crawl.

Rowan stood in the middle of the yard and looked at me.

"Rowan. Otter."

"No."

I had him off the ground and round the corner in about a second and a half, and I put him in the gap next to his brother and got the board ove
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