Chapter 13/ Caught by the demons of poor phone reception

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Saturday afternoon. 

That afternoon we got back and had lunch. I stood outside Aunt Mallery's room with George, Leo was down on look out . She, Dante and 'the buckle' had gone it to a local town called Glouster followed by the director and camera bot. Apparently, John had found he was short of some new specific buckle polish.

George stood outside Aunt Mallery's room frustrated.

"F**K The door's locked" said George. "Why did she lock it? What's she got to worry about in this household?We are like 500 meters up"

"What's she got to worry about ? Well me for a start" I said. coming up and swapping with guard duty with Leo, I knew what to do. Fortunately for us it was a mechanical lock. I was going to ask George if she had a hair pin. I looked at her close cropped blonde hair and realized the futility of the statement. 

Just then I saw a weary overnight bag trundle down the end of the corridor traveling  slowly to my room.

"Here boy!!" I said.

The dusty overnight bag stopped and turned towards me.

"Here I am. Come here boy" I added patting my legs.

The bag had somehow followed me all the way from outside my flat in Atlanta. It rushed up excitedly like a puppy.

"Good boy, good boy. Now open wide" I said. 

The bag lay on its side and with a touch of my finger on the scanner opened up. The bag opened to show a huge amount of climbing equipment emerging  like entrails. I search for a moment and then found a familiar small slim black folder.

"Good boy" I said zipping the bag up again. It got back on its wheels again. "OK go join your friends, go to my room. go join your friends OK?".

The overnight case got up and zipped off.

I pulled out my lock picks pushed one in and began working on the door. George and Leo watched in amazement as I began to pick the lock.

"It wasn't locked yesterday. How do you know how to do that?" said George.

"On the eye I was a bit of an urban explorer" I lied slightly "I used to go round visiting lost places."

Technically that was true. 

"WOW" said George and Leo.

The door swung open and we went in.

"This is what took so long yesterday" said George. She put her hand to the wall covered in smart wallpaper, a menu appeared.

" I resisted the temptation to remove the horrendous wallpaper pattern and found an obscure menu buried in an obscure menu. " said George.

"This is worse than trying to go undo on Windows 49" I said.

Finally George found the menu item called 'LOTR'" it came up with this weird drawing of a doorway.

"this says speak friend and enter in Elvish." said Leo.

Wow they must teach dead languages like latin and elvish at these Earth schools, how cool.

"Friend" said George and we heard a click as the hidden door was unlocked. A seam appeared near the door

I looked at Leo "I thought you were on guard duty"

"oh I thought you were" said Leo.

Before I could say "I stopped when I opened the door" I got a stream of messages on my earrings all at once.

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