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Pines at night. He gasped as something pulled at his oar. Never leave home in Sticky Pines, period! Forcefully, the paddle was yanked out of Milo’s hand. He yelped as it slid out of its socket and slipped under the water with a sad little PLOOP. He was now stranded. Then, just a metre away, he saw something emerge from the
gloomy depths.
The water rippled as something thin and dark
rose above the surface. Milo’s chest tightened. Is that a snake? If it was, it was the biggest one he’d ever seen. He vaguely remembered something Lucy had said about an abyssal sea serpent in Black Hole Lake. Are ALL her nonsense beliefs actually real?
With quavering hands, he held out his flashlight-phone like a protective talisman. Another serpent popped up to his left, followed by two more behind him, and one more at the front. Milo gulped. I’m surrounded.
Another serpent slithered quickly up the side of the hull. Milo squealed, picked up one of his
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