Felicity tossed her bag on the floor by his feet and settled in next to him. ‘I’m looking forward to this,’ she said. ‘Scottish history in Scotland. What a treat.’ Gerald watched Felicity insert a pencil into a sharpener and give it a twist. ‘You were more fun on holidays,’ he said. Felicity withdrew the pencil and pursed her lips to blow away any stray shavings. ‘And you run the risk of being very boring indeed if you keep up that attitude.’ Gerald rested his chin in his palm until his cheek squished up to his eyeball. ‘More boring than Scottish history?’ Felicity did not bother to respond. Gerald’s initial excitement at being away at camp had quickly flattened when he realised that his days were still going to be full of school lessons. Sergei Baranov’s threat and Mason Green’s insistence that he crack the coded message from Jeremy Davey had made him anxious. That anxiety was only compounded by the relentless drudge of algebra, French vocab and the periodic table.
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