‘No, I have only had it with tomato. I hope to try carrot soon.’ ‘Yes,’ came the voice behind the bananas, ‘you must.’ The sequence had been completed exactly. ‘Agent CC12?’ whispered EJ. ‘Is that you?’ ‘Affirmative, Agent EJ12.’ EJ moved a box of bananas to one side and there, sitting cross-legged in amongst the fruit, was a girl. She seemed shorter than EJ but apart from that looked about the same age. She had reddish-blonde hair tied back in plaits, pale skin and friendly looking blue eyes. ‘You took your time; I was getting cold in here!’ ‘Sorry,’ replied EJ. ‘I’ve been a bit busy and I only just got your message in the flour. How did you manage to hide in here?’ ‘I came in with the fruit delivery this morning.’ ‘Cool,’ smiled EJ, for a moment wishing she could be in the surveillance division. ‘CC12, what have you learned?’ ‘Madame Ombre is working for SHADOW,’ said CC, ‘and she has been baking lots more cupcakes than usual.’ ‘Interesting that it’s cupcakes she has been baking,’ said EJ, and she filled in CC on the message she had decoded that morning.
