‘Oh. Of course.’ I should have remembered that, for I had seen Eva travel that way many times and never with more than two or three passengers. ‘Me, Pense and Ori, then.’
‘Great. Fetch the team, and we’ll go.’
I beamed at him, and ran.
We assembled back at my house. I had not had to search far for Pense, because he had been following me — discreetly. Keeping an eye on Gio, of course. Ori, though, had given up on the dramatics outside and gone back to his books. I found him sprawled once more upon the floor, reorganising his bookmarks into some new, presumably more useful, configuration.
‘Adventure time,’ I told him, and hauled him up off the floor.
He bounced smartly to his feet, adjusted his rumpled shirt, attempted and mostly failed to arrange his hair, and nodded at me. ‘What’s it
