However, Noel was wellpracticed and navigated around both them and the junk laying about thefloor.Standing just before the bathroom, she took off her ...helmet and mentallycommanded her armour to open. Stepping out and down, Noel guessed she wasabout a head shorter than she was before first stepping into the box.Noel put some food down for her cat, but he didn't come out of hidinguntil she was in the bathroom getting a better look at herself.As her cat was chomping away at the dry food, Noel kept. We picked upand threw out the spilled Pusketti, and then used paper towels and sudsywater to clean the floor (ketchup, oil, cookie dough and footprints.Footprints?) We looked at our feet and decided to clean them too, theywere making food debris marks everywhere we went. Then we cleaned thesurfaces where we had worked, and removed our paw prints from the fridge,stove, microwave, and drawer handles. Finally we washed the plates andutensils. Dexter put the ketchup away. Then I had to wash his. Priya, in the front of the canoe, called out, “Jenny, there’s a fork in the river.”Sure enough, the river divided left and right. They stopped, worried about what to do.“It’s ok, there’s an arrow. Let’s follow it.” Jenny brightened up seeing a sign with an arrow just ahead.Coming closer, her optimism turned to doubt. The sign pointed straight ahead, right between the two branches of the stream! Some goof must have bumped it. They still didn’t know which way to turn.Priya wanted to go right. She. “Look what I discovered right at the bottom of my trunk,” Mimi said, holding up a sheet of paper. “This must be Rollo’s as it is covered in hieroglyphs, with an explanation in English of their meaning.” She perused the list and then raised her head and stared at me. “There is a hieroglyph here that I have seen on the amulet you wear about your neck. Look!” She thrust the paper towards me, her finger pointing at a familiar symbol. It was indeed one stamped into the amulet given me by Rabbi.
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