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Choco Puffles and Banana Milk.

Bal Harbour University of codes and messages was due to open in September. They had partnered with one of a child's favourite cereals - Choco Puffles. They were also the only other people in the whole world, except for the agents, to know about Spectrum - a secret agency like no other. This time, the University and the agency had a particular child they wanted to get the code and crack it. So they had many puzzles put on the back of the cereal boxes and delivered to all of the supermarkets. But one did not reach the supermarket. Instead, it was transported to a house on Cedarwood Drive, Twinford. This particular packet had the most unbreakable of codes on the back.

A girl of the age of nine or ten came hopping down the stairs, into the kitchen. It was late afternoon and the girl felt like having a snack before dinner. Just then, she heard a knock at the door and yelled 'I'll get it!'. She opened the door to a smartly dressed man who looked no older than twenty. He looked very 'matter-of-factly' at the young girl staring up at him from the door step. 'A parcel for you, Miss' he said, checking the box for her name, but not bothering to say it. He handed it over and watched as the child examined it. Then, without a word, he straightened up his tie and walked back out to the van across the road. The child could just make out tiny house flies all over the van, but they were printed on.

She shrugged her shoulders and skipped into the kitchen, taking the time to sit at a stool and place the parcel before her. The girl gazed at the package, before straightening up her barrette and opening the box. She stood the box up in front of her and stared at the yellow cardboard before grabbing a bowl from the cupboard, a spoon, a glass, some milk and some banana flavoured milk. She poured some of the puffles into the blue bowl, and then doused it all in milk, before opening a fresh carton of banana milk and pouring it into a glass. She then checked to see that no cars were on the drive, as they weren't, and checked the back of the box for the 'puzzle of the day'. But this was; however, a very different puzzle to the one her best friend would be receiving. It was said to be unbreakable, but within ten minutes, the girl (small for her age) had broken it. She found the hidden coupon within a couple of seconds. It was a coupon for a lifetime supply of choco puffles and banana milk. 'Cool.' She muttered and made a mental note to post that - her father was always forgetting to buy her beloved treats.

She then took the bowl upstairs to her bedroom and found a puppy husky lay down on her beanbag - evidently asleep. 'Aw. Alright Bug. You get the beanbag today.' She crooned to the puppy, who didn't hear a word. She opened the little latch that connected her room to the roof and scrambled up the stairs, food balancing in one hand, and a portable tv and drink in the other. She then settled down to watch a new episode of her favourite drama - Crazy Cops. She could learn a lot from Detective Despo, no matter how much her father complained of her 'Television habits'. She then picked up one of her collection of phones and dialled a number she had dialled more times than she could remember. 'Hey bozo, same time, same place, soon as. See you soon.' The little boy on the end of the receiver understood every word.

This little girl was Ruby Redfort.

Some Several Years Later...