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darkness. Jasper figured he had moved on to deliver more notes. He reached down and picked up his rock.
    He read his note out loud: ‘In the darkness underground, I creep and crawl without a sound.’
    Saffy read her note: ‘If you hunt me, best beware, I am nastiest at my lair.’
    Saffy and Jasper looked at Felix.
    â€˜Oh, right,’ he said, unwrapping his rock and reading. ‘But just a single button pressed will send me to a lengthy rest.’
    Jasper re-read the notes carefully. ‘That’s the clue? That’s all the help we get?’
    It didn’t make sense. Saffy looked stumped as well. But Felix was staring off into the night, with a look of concentration on his face.
    In the darkness
underground,
Icreep and crawl
without a sound
    If you hunt me,
best beware –
I am nastiest at lair
    But just a single button
pressed
Will send me to a
lengthy rest.
    â€˜Hang on a minute,’ said Felix. ‘I know this.’ He was clicking his fingers. ‘I’ve heard it before.’
    Jasper and Saffy looked at him curiously.
    â€˜It’s a Grubbergrind.’
    â€˜A Grubberwhat?’ asked Saffy, looking confused.
    â€˜A Grubbergrind,’ Felix repeated confidently. ‘That’s the answer. I’ve just saved us a night of study.’ He looked particularly pleased with himself.
    â€˜But how do you … What makes you so sure?’ asked Jasper.
    â€˜It’s from this poem I heard ages ago,’ said Felix. ‘When I was about five, my brothers came home from school for the holidays. They were trying to scare me about this thing called a Grubbergrind. They had this poem about it. It was the same as the clues we were just given, but it had an extra line:
    In the darkness underground, I creep and crawl without a sound.
    If you hunt me best beware, I am nastiest at my lair.
    But just a single button pressed will send me to a lengthy rest.
    There’s one thing you won’t care to find: the eight legs of the Grubbergrind.
    â€˜My brothers would chase me, pretending to be a Grubbergrind that was going to eat me. I thought it was just something they’d made up. I didn’t think it really existed!’
    â€˜Well, it must,’ said Saffy. ‘And we’re going to catch it. Felix, you are so cool!’
    Felix blushed.
    â€˜So, a Grubber ... grind,’ said Jasper. ‘And your brothers said it was going to eat you. It’s a Muncher, isn’t it?’ He gulped. After what had happened in Mental Manipulations, Jasper didn’t want anything to do with another Muncher.
    Felix shugged unhappily. ‘I guess so. The grind part does makes it sound like a Muncher.’
    Saffy was still shaking her head in disbelief. ‘I can’t believe you can remember something like a weird poem from so long ago.’
    â€˜I remember all kinds of stuff like that,’ said Felix. ‘Especially about monsters.’ He shuddered.
    â€˜Awesome,’ said Saffy. ‘So where do we find this Grubbythingy?’
    â€˜I don’t know,’ said Felix. ‘I only know the poem. I’ve got no idea what it looks like or where to find it, so I reckon we’d all better get ready to run the penalty course for the next week anyway.’
    â€˜That reminds me,’ said Jasper. ‘I’ve got to run the penalty course tonight. I’d better go.’
    â€˜Watch out for the Grubbywhatsy,’ Saffy called after him cheerfully. ‘They might’ve already released it.’
    â€˜That’s not funny,’ said Felix, pulling out his asthma puffer. ‘Um, can we go back now? I mean, I did nearly die today.’

6
    Jasper trudged along the icy ground towards the edge of the forest. The further away from the school building he was, the more the darkness grew around him. The clue for the Task kept beating through his head. In the darkness underground, I creep and crawl without a sound
    He wondered if