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manager there, right?”
“Yeah.” Lucy’s dad had seemed grumpy
lately... Why?
“Word on the mycelium network is –” Gertie
looked around furtively – “Mr Fisher plans to profit by turning this whole town inside out. He’s going to destroy the land, exploit the resources, then split when the sap’s dried up.” She popped the blackened marshmallow skin into her mouth.
“Really?” Lucy had been so concerned about the Pretenders she hadn’t considered what Nu Co. was doing to Sticky Pines itself. A gust of wind blew smoke into Lucy’s face, sending her coughing.
“Word is –” Gertie lowered her voice even further – “Fisher’s working on something freaky over there.”
“Like what?”
Gertie sniffed. “I’d have thought if anybody
had inside knowledge, it’d be you.” She held the marshmallow’s naked interior over the flames.
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