Chapter 35

The presence of wild animals indicated that this village was fairly close to the forest. I was not really sure, but at least it had something to do with that secret message I was able to decipher. What a coincidence.

"These six letters are an anagram," I said quickly. "No doubt."

"Can you explain more?" asked Dova.

then I pointed to each letter I had written on it. "If you mix them up again, they can still form different words." I immediately took the marker and began rewriting the letters.

"Wow," I leaned at the sight of a word I'd written.

[F O R E S T]

"The forest," I said. "Mr. Lion may be hiding in there."

Agent 43z took a piece of paper in my hand and finally decided something. "We must all sleep now, for tomorrow we shall try to hunt a lion in the wilderness."

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