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head back to your car there’ll be a constable waiting.’
    â€˜Is that it?’ asked Charlotte. ‘We just go back home?’
    â€˜I’ll call you tonight to let you know where we’re at, but I think I know already what I’ll be telling you. We’re viewing this now as a prank; a serious prank, but a prank all the same. It doesn’t appear that your son is in danger and we expect him to return to you soon. Other than waiting for more bits of story we won’t have the resources on this to do much more.’
    Alex was stunned. ‘You’re not serious? The police are going to pull away from this?’
    â€˜Until they show up and then someone gets charged with the vandalism, yeah, I think this is where this is heading.’
    Charlotte stepped forward. ‘You don’t sound as if you fully believe it though.’
    Fields shrugged. ‘It doesn’t really matter what I believe. My superiors believe this case hasn’t really got the legs to require such man power, so I wouldn’t be surprised if I’m on something else tomorrow. I still will call you tonight, as a courtesy.’
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Courtesy?
’ said Alex. ‘Oh, well thank you very much. We’ll wait with bated breath.’
    â€˜As you will,’ said Fields. ‘Read the next bit of the story, and we’ll talk later.’ He gestured with his arm. ‘And remember what you’ve seen here, and the name of that pub.’
    â€˜What are you on about?’ asked Alex.
    â€˜You’ve read it already,’ said Charlotte.
    â€˜Before they sent it for copying. I think our conversation later will be one worth having. The constable is waiting – he has your pages.’
    Alex took his wife’s hand and led her away. He just hoped there was something in the story – as the detective seemed to be suggesting – that was going to help them get their boy back.

GREENSPHERE QUEST by TOM HOLLIDAY
    PART TWO

    The forest was being shrouded by fog…and frogs! They were everywhere, jumping from tree to tree, blocking George’s view in every way.
If we can just keep going
, thought George, as something with too many legs crawled around his stallion’s hooves. George looked down to see a small rainbow mushroom growing at the base of a tree. He jumped off the carriage. “Hey! Look at this pretty fungi!”
    Worried, Helena replied, “Don’t breathe in their rainbow smoke. You’ll knock yourself out…literally!”
    As the stallion rode on, a clearing came closer. As they pulled into it, several forest wolves appeared from between the trees. There was a large one next to two smaller wolves. Their yellow eyes glinted as they glared at them. The big wolf bared its fangs and extended its claws, scratching the clearing floor.
    George closed his eyes and…the biggest wolf howled and trotted off. The rest howled and followed the leader. “Phew!” sighed George. “I thought we were going to get eaten alive!”
    As they rode on, Helena asked, “Do you know what attracted those…wolves?”
    George replied, “Yeah…I have no idea.”
    Helena scowled. “Hilarious,” she said sarcastically.
    Once they rode beyond the clearing they passed a big dragon statue sat on a stone chest-shaped base. “That stone dragon has a…key around its neck,” muttered Helena. “I think we should get it; it may come in useful later on.”
    George nodded and said, “Okay.” After observing the statue George pulled out a dictionary from his backpack. “Hmmm, a wyverym (WHY-VER-E-UM). A stone dragon creature, that when it loses possession of its wyverym key, will obliterate everything in its path.” He thought about it awhile. “So if we destroy it before we grab the key we can probably access whatever that key opens without an angry wyverym trying to destroy us,” George