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A Bundle of Clues

The air had grown cooler as the sun made its way across the sky and toward the horizon The drip-drip-drip of the erly waited to see the next clue

Mothball pulled out a fah this one seemed thicker than the others, and a separate piece of white paper had been stapled to the upper left corner, its edges flapping loosely as she handled it After a long look at Rutger, Mothball handed the package over to Tick, who snapped it out of her hand withoutthe note attached to the envelope "What’s this?"

"Flip it over and read it," Rutger answered "Thought you could at least figure that out by yourself"

"Very funny," Tickthe paper to read the few sentences typed on the back:

Within you will find the next four clues in the sequence, numbers 7, 8, 9, and 10 Now, most certainly you will read these and conclude to yourself that I, your huone batty because they don’t seem like clues at all I will only say this: EVERYTHING you receive is a clue

Tick looked up at Mothball then down at Rutger, whose folded are belly "Four clues at once?"

"He’s a bit hasty," Mothball said "You see, has to be twelve clues, there does, and we’ve only got a short tio, ya know"

"Why does there have to be twelve?"

"’Tis part of the riddle, Master Tick" She winked at hiiven you ruenschlubberheihtened with recognition "Ah, I reht my sis and me all about him, he did That bloke invented the very first version of the Barrier Wand"

Rutger shushed Mothball "Are you crazy? I thought ere done giving out secrets the boy doesn’t need to know yet"