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She had never ventured here before. Even the nimble-footed Magic could not have been expected to clamber up and down these steep, slippery slopes.
The scientists were rummaging in the packs for their spotlights. They also exhumed the picnic from the depths of one. Charles eyed it with delight.
‘Did you know that the world’s rainforests are being cleared at a rate equal to eighteen sports stadiums each minute of the day?’ asked Athol.
Saffron looked thoughtful. Charles had different priorities. He asked, ‘Is it time to eat yet? What did Tom pack us for dinner?’ They found a log with ferns and fungi growing around ferns and fungi growing around the bottom and
used it as a table to lay out their picnic on. There was home-made pate and a round
brie-cheese. Accompanying these was a loaf of fresh, crusty bread and a salad
of cherry-tomatoes, artichoke-hearts, button-mushrooms and tiny, new potatoes in mint-yoghurt dressing. This was followed by a container
of little, round, delicate, pastry balls called profiteroles, filled with custard and iced with rich, dark chocolate.