He’d barely even registered the others leaving. Something to do with food. Strange how he wasn’t hungry. His stomach felt permanently jittery. He imagined if he did eat something it would probably just bounce around inside him with all his other strange feelings. He looked at the talisman lying in his hand. It looked so ordinary – just a dull, muddy, stony brown. Nothing magical about it. But when it glowed, that was something else. Knowing how powerful it was kind of terrified and excited him at the same time. The bees had disappeared instantly, so whatever came at them next wouldn’t stand a chance. At least, he hoped. Felix put the talisman carefully around his neck. He knew he should probably tell the others about it but Andy would diss it as unscientific, and Jake and Sam were taking everything pretty hard – he couldn’t imagine how they’d react to a magical talisman. He would tell them soon. But first, he had other things to work out. It was all very well, being able to protect them from the attacks – but he still didn’t know why they were being attacked.
