By Scarlett Thomas
Alice-slight introvert, crossword compositor- works at PopCo, a globally winning and a little bit sinister toy corporation. Lured by way of their CEO to a suggestion Camp out at the moors, PopCo's creatives needs to invent the final word product for teenage ladies. in the meantime, Alice gets weird and wonderful, encrypted messages she suspects relate to her grandfather's deciphering of a centuries-old manuscript that many-including her long-disappeared father-believe ends up in buried treasure. Its key, she's convinced, is engraved at the necklace she's been donning considering the fact that she was once ten. utilizing the abilities she discovered from her grandparents and instructing us elements of cryptanalysis, Alice discovers the resource of those creepy codes. Will this lead her to the mysterious treasure or one other, much more rigorously guarded mystery?
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No longer in an alley or a store doorway. i'm considering (and were considering, for weeks now, really) approximately A-frame shelters and methods of stuffing your outfits with dried grass to maintain your self hot and the way to assemble and clear out water. I recognize i would like grass lower than my toes now, and preserve jogging. After wandering for your time I come to a game floor with old-looking cricket nets. There are fresh chalk-marks at the worn eco-friendly astro-turf. i believe approximately my grandfather, for a moment or , and the way he taught me to bowl leg-spin in our small backyard in Cambridge. I think that the youngsters who play the following have mom and dad no longer that a lot older than me: glossy tracksuits, emblems, fashion designer glasses, workplace jobs. but by some means I nonetheless think like a toddler, with a grandfather who performed cricket in no matter what he occurred to be donning on the time, smoking a pipe as he did so. The piece of netting placing in among the 2 perform wickets has a major gap in it, and flaps round within the mild wind. i feel approximately mosquito nets and youngsters operating clear of domestic in a scorching nation and the way my equipment might paintings in several climates. Is it more straightforward to outlive whilst it is scorching? probably, even if there's dehydration to fret approximately. within the chilly you could actually freeze to dying. i'm going to need to make fighting opposed to either one of these items appear enjoyable in my product. I hate the note "product. " i'm having principles, yet they don't seem to be first-class. Did I come the following to have principles? sure. I did. i actually did. i did not come the following simply because i did not have the rest to do, by myself in a wierd city in the midst of the evening. Sighing, I sit at the driest little bit of grass i will locate and open my bag. I pour a cup of boiling water from my flask and position it at the floor, sooner than including a small pinch of eco-friendly tea. I then take out a packet of blue cigarette papers and drop a touch smaller pinch of brown tobacco into it, including a filter out tip ahead of rolling it up, putting it in my mouth and lighting fixtures it. do not examine your self) from the surface. do not see what folks see. you're sitting on a cricket box in a small city having a cup of tea in the course of the evening. it truly is thoroughly general. yet i'm an anomaly. A night-time apothecary residing on leaves. eco-friendly leaves to drink; brown leaves to smoke. I watch the solar arise like this, milky orange ice-lollies, after which I stroll again to the station to take a cab to Hare corridor, through a few forgettable breakfast position. I will never inform an individual I did this, this night. To myself, i'll clarify it as paintings. bankruptcy 3 The moor is a shock. this can be wasteland, actual barren region, during which you'll really wander off and die of publicity. There are numerous hills with broken-looking stone constructions on the most sensible of them. Forts? old settlements? i'm going to discover. Then mist, plenty of mist and a drizzle that makes me contemplate see-through umbrellas and bathe caps. One farm animals grid, a "Please Take Moor Care" signal, then a few giant, shaggy-looking cows and one other farm animals grid. it isn't really 9 o'clock within the morning yet i've got already thoroughly misplaced my bearings.