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And with the horses fed and watered, all the agents were now enjoying their own breakfast of pancakes, strawberries andmaple syrup.
    â€˜It could have been a lot worse,’ said A1 grimly. ‘If you hadn’t called us so quickly, EJ, who knows what might have happened with those winds.’
    â€˜And if they’d gotten hold of so many of SHINE ’s CHARMs,’ GG added.
    EJ shuddered. She hated to think.
    A1 put her knife and fork down and stood up from the table. ‘I think now is the perfect time for the presentation.’
    â€˜Absolutely,’ said GG.
    The animal training division agents lined up outside their horses’ boxes. A1 stood at the head of the stable yard and addressed them.
    â€˜You have all done outstandingly,’ she told the group. ‘You stayed calm and looked after your horses with exceptional care in an emergency. It looks like one day you might be as mission-ready as EJ12 here.’
    EJ blushed. HJ and EL beamed at her.
    â€˜I will now present you with your achievementbadges,’ said A1. She walked up and shook each of the agents by the hand as GG presented them with their horse trainer badges. They had all earned them.
    It was EJ’s turn to smile broadly when HJ12 and then EL12 were presented with theirs.
    â€˜Way to go!’ mouthed EJ to her two friends.
    â€˜And we have one more badge to award,’ said A1. ‘EJ, will you step forward, please?’
    EJ blushed again as GG presented her with her badge.
    â€˜Good job, EJ12,’ said Agent GG22. ‘It seems you are a horse person after all.’
    EJ smiled. Maybe she was but she wasn’t sure that she deserved an award. After all, they still didn’t really know who was behind the SHADOW spy-flies.

    The trainees boarded the bus that would take them home.
    â€˜Come with us, EJ,’ said A1, climbing into the campervan. ‘We will drop you home. I need to discuss something with you.’
    EJ and A1 sat at the campervan table. A1 was examining a spy-fly.
    â€˜We were able to re-build it from the bits you sent,’ said A1. ‘It’s ingenious really. They work like real insects. They are planted somewhere, like on poor Trojan, as eggs. They can be pre-set to hatch at a specific time when they then grow like flies embedding their audio-visual bugs into pretty much anywhere. And you can monitor them on a phone. It really is quite brilliant.’
    â€˜Who at SHADOW could invent something like this?’ wondered EJ. Then EJ had a brainwave, or at least part of one. ‘Adriana was the original inventor of Eco-Deco when she worked at SHINE , wasn’t she?’
    â€˜Yes …’ said A1.
    â€˜Could she be involved with this?’
    â€˜I don’t see how she could do it from inside SHINE Detention,’ said A1.
    â€˜Maybe because she had HH33 and II44 on the outside to help her,’ said EJ. ‘But who is HH33?’
    â€˜I think I know,’ said A1. ‘HH is Harriet Hill. She is …’
    â€˜Caterina Hill’s sister?’ asked EJ, her eyes widening.
    â€˜I’m afraid so,’ said A1. ‘Your rosette-cams got a visual this morning and we cross-checked against our records. Harriet is definitely Caterina’s sister.’
    â€˜And you think she is working with Adriana?’
    â€˜I do, and possibly with Caterina as well.’
    â€˜Wow,’ said EJ. ‘Sisters … And I thought brothers were bad.’
    A1 smiled at that. ‘We need to keep a close eye on my sister. And I think I’ll take a good look at her drawings. Good work, EJ!’
    â€˜But it’s not over yet,’ said EJ.
    â€˜It is for today, EJ,’ replied A1. ‘We’ll work it out. We—and you—always do. For now, at least, everything is secure—and we are arriving at the end of your street.’
    But is everything secure? wondered EJ. She remembered about Bob and his remote-controlled