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She turned left down the next alley and frowned. It looked exactly the same as the last one.
The tall whitewashed houses were strung out in front of her like sheets of paper, with colourful doors and neat window boxes. Lily tore a flower out of one and then suddenly felt guilty. She tucked it back in. At the end of the road, she stopped dead. Another identical street. She was definitely lost. She started to wonder if she was having a nightmare. An endless road of Edge houses, twisting around her for all eternity.
She tried to retrace her steps to work out which direction the main road was in, but the curving streets threw her. The whisper of the sea was ever present. She took out her phone and started to type in her mum’s name, then stopped and stuffed it back into her pocket. She was twelve years old. She couldn’t phone her mum and tell her she’d got lost like a little kid. Besides, she didn’t even know how to describe where she was. Oh yeah, I’m on that street that looks like all of the other streets. Hope you find me before I starve to death! She would just have to
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