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Poppy had been going through the book backwards, and now she was back at the introduction. She was about to close the book when she noticed a tiny illustration, buried in the text of the introduction. A medieval herb garden, the caption said.
It was beautiful. Like an amazing pattern, all made out of plants. It almost looked like a maze, with the little hedges, but Poppy had a feeling they were too low to hide anyone. They were just there to keep the different sorts of plants separate. But the picture was so little it was hard to tell. She needed a better one, but she was pretty sure there was nothing like that in any of her other books.
Mum liked gardening, though. There was a shelf in the kitchen with recipe books and a few gardening books, and Poppy was sure that one of them was about growing your own fruit and vegetables, and herbs came into it too. She’d seen Mum looking at it when she’d bought a basil plant from the supermarket, trying to work out if there was a way to keep it alive.
Poppy bounced off her bed, pausing for a second to blow out the tealight under the oil burner, because if anyone found out she’d left it burning she’d never be allowed to use it again. Then she raced down the
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