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she asked.
    â€˜You’ll see,’ said A1, chuckling a little at her own joke as SJ walked back into the Operations Room with a backpack marked with a red cross. ‘Good, SJ, you have your medical supplies. Now you’d both better get back to the airport before the boys notice you are gone. Good luck and enjoy your holiday!’
    EJ and SJ smiled and waved to A1 as they left the Operations Room and got back into the bullet train. It returned them to the dark corridor behind the women’s toilets. As the train door opened, their phones beeped. EJ checked her phone screen.

    Five, four, three, two, one …
    Two panels of the back wall in front of them spun around and two toilets appeared. EJ and SJ took their positions on the seats and held on as the toilets spun back into the cubicles. They then both unlocked their doors and walked out of the women’s toilets and back to the duty-free shop. Bob and Dad were still there, still looking at computer games.
    â€˜Sorry we were a little while,’ said Emma’s mum.
    â€˜Oh, are you back already?’ said Bob.
    Emma smiled at her mum. The boys were none the wiser.
    Then there was an announcement. ‘Flight 59 to Nairobi now boarding.’
    â€˜That’s us,’ cried Emma’s dad. ‘Let’s go!’
    Emma checked the flight number again: it was 59 and if you alpha-matched those numbers, 5 stood for E and 9 stood for J: you got EJ. Just a coincidence? Emma thought not. A1 didn’t like coincidences.

The flight went smoothly. Emma’s dad slept most of the time and her mum read. Bob played games and Emma watched movies. She had just settled down to watch Spy Movie 3 when the flight crew began the meal service.
    â€˜Chicken or vegetarian meal?’ the attendant asked Bob.
    â€˜Chicken, thanks,’ said Bob as the tray was passed over Emma to him.
    Emma was about to say chicken too when the attendant put a tray in front of her. ‘There you go, you’ll love the vegetarian dish,’ she said.
    â€˜Oh,’ said Emma. ‘I was actually thinking I would like the chicken, please.’
    â€˜Oh, this is so much better,’ replied the woman. ‘It’s a really light dish.’
    â€˜But I love chicken …’ began Emma.
    â€˜No, really, you’ll love this,’ said the woman again. ‘And it comes with such a lovely napkin. You’ll really want to take a good look at it. It’s A1.’ The woman looked straight at Emma.
    â€˜Oh, right,’ said Emma as the penny dropped. ‘The vegetarian meal does look yummy doesn’t it? Thank you.’ EJ opened the plastic bag with the cutlery and napkin and unfolded the napkin. As she did a small card fell into her lap.

    EJ switched from Spy Movie 3 to channel 19 and put on her headphones. The SHINE logo appeared and then the title, Agents in Action—SWR in Africa .
    Bob leaned over. ‘What are you watching?’ he asked.
    â€˜Oh, a really interesting documentary,’ she said.
    Bob leant over so much he was practically sitting on Emma. ‘Ugh,’ he said, ‘you are such a nerd, Emma! You and your animals!’
    â€˜Yeah,’ sighed Emma, relieved. ‘Me and my animals!’
    Bob went back to his games and EJ returned to her briefing. The film showed many African animals and talked about the threats they faced from poachers and what SHINE was trying to do to help. It talked about the new micro-chipping project that SJ45 was a major part of and EJ felt proud that her mum’s work was going to help so many animals. But there was something about the film that also made EJ nervous. Africa was such a vast, vast continent. How on earth was she going to find Adriana and the ‘black’ she was hunting? Lots of black coloured animals had come up on the screen—rhinos, elephants, hippos, monkeys …Which one was Adriana after? Or was it all of them? What was her plan and how was EJ