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"So the question we should probably be asking ourselves," Luke said, "Is, what did little Savannah do that the others didn’t do? Or perhaps even, what did everybody else do that Savannah didn’t do?”

A good question to which nobody had an answer, certainly not the parents. So Mayor Rochester invited all twelve children into his home, handed out chocolate and lemonade, and asked Luke to handle it, who was, albeit childless himself, a favourite among the kids for his pancake faces at lunch.

“I can hold my breath for really long!” said Isabel, when he asked her if she could remember anything out of the ordinary from that day.

George declared, “I swallowed a wriggly worm by accident, but it’s okay, I got sick right after and the worm was alright, too!”

Emma demanded a princess face the next time they served pancakes at the canteen. Tim said he had forgotten who could scream loudest behind the water, Savannah was scared of dark spaces, Astrid proudly wore a bra now, and Pavel got water up his nose when he had attempted an underwater handstand.

Julian was only three years old and didn’t know what was going on. Max had cut his toe on something, but admitted that it could have happened on any other day as well, because he didn’t keep track of his injuries; he was an accident-prone boy.

Zinna especially liked the flowers on the bottom of the lake, and Rose didn’t say anything, she broke into tears because Max accidentally knocked over her glass of lemonade when he tried to sneak some more chocolate from across the table.

As far as interrogations went, this was easily the most interesting Luke had ever had the fortune to be part of.