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When her mind reading powers finally manifested themselves at 6:00pm, rather than report to Mistress at Headquarters, Heri made a beeline for Ly’s house.

She’d been patient. Eating the food the other girls at Headquarters had whispered aided “the process”, staying close to electronic devices–-she’d smuggled in a pocket radio that she switched on, put on silent and slipped into the pockets she’d fashioned in the roof of all her school hats and uniforms—and most importantly, she’d secretly visited the old lady at Senior Aunty’s place—rundown and humourless one-storey buildings where old people were secreted away when they became a nuisance to Headquarters.

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