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\nhttps://archive.org/details/trick0000orma  \nH  \nKC10770  \nTitles in Papercuts:  \nTHE TRICK  \nKATE ORMAND  \nSCISSOR MAN  \nTIM COLLINS  \nQUEEN OF FLIES  \nTIM COLLINS  \nALICE  \nDANNY PEARSON  \nTHE SICKNESS  \nJACQUELINE RAYNER  \nA LITTLE SECRETANN EVANS  \nTelephone:01438791037  \n# THET\n\nKATE ORMAND I MARK PENMAN  \n“You went missing—you were taken.”  \nKci07702|20  \nThe Trick ISBN 978-1-78837-216-9  \nText CKate Ormand 2018Complete work Badger Publishing Limited 2018  \nAll rights reserved.No part of this publication may bereproduced,stored in any form or by any means mechanical,electronic,recording or otherwise without the prior permissionof the publisher.  \nThe right of Kate Ormand to be identified as author of thisWork has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright,Designs and Patents Act 1988.  \nPublisher:Susan Ross  \nSenior Editor:Danny Pearson  \nEditorial Coordinator:Claire Morgan  \nCopyeditor:Cheryl Lanyon  \nDesigner:Bigtop Design Ltd  \nIllustration:Mark Penman  \n24681097531  \nCHAPTER 1  \n# CRAGG COTTAGE\n\n“  \nNoah was alone outside Cragg Cottage.  \nHe watched the waves crash against the foot ofthe cliffs he sat on.His aunt and uncle didn't likehim getting too close to the edge.  \nHis sketchbook was on his lap,open on a blankpage.His toes were dangerously close to the edge.The wind rushed through his hair,catching in hissleeves,and he moved back a little.  \nHe was going to draw the view—the stretch ofwater,the scattered rocks,the pebble beach,thesharp cliffs.But for now he just watched the waves.  \nThere were stories about the cliffs.AboutCragg Cottage.About the long grasses andwhere they led.  \nThe stories were about fairies taking the childrenwho played on the cliffs.  \nNoah lived with his aunt and uncle.His parentswere divorced.Noah's dad had moved away andhis mum worked all over the country,returningto Cragg Cottage whenever she could.Neitherhis aunt nor uncle believed the stories and hadassured Noah they weren't true when he'd firstcome to live with them.  \nHe had only been here a few months,but hisfriends at school had told him everything aboutthe disappearances and sometimes Noah thoughthe saw..things.  \nHe would come back outside after lunch to findhis sketchbook moved,but that could just havebeen the wind.  \nHe would take his shoes off outside the door and  \nfind them missing the next morning,but thatcould have been an animal.  \nThere was no proof that it was fairies.No reasonit would be.They didn't exist in Noah's world.But the stories seemed so real and sometimes hefound himself wondering what i?  \nWhat if fairies moved his sketchbook and stole hisshoes?Whát if they were the reason children haddisappeared?  \nNoah picked up his pencil and started to draw.He drew the waves and the cliffs and the seagulls.It was how he spent most of his spare timebecause no one from school would visit him uphere.He didn't get many invitations to go downto his friends'houses in the village either.  \nIt was Easter break and he'd heard about familyholidays,and plans being made between friends.All he had was this—his art,and his aunt anduncle.Sometimes it was all he needed.Other  \ntimes he felt lonely.  \nHe'd soon learned that anyone who lived at CraggCottage was a bit of an outcast.Even if peopledidn't believe the fairy stories,they believed thatsomething wasn't quite right with the place.Noah'saunt and uncle told him he'd get used to it.  \nHe turned to a new page in his sketchbook,  \nleaving the cliff scene he had started.Instead hedrew the make-believe creatures said to live on thiscliff.He drew the fairies how he imagined them.  \nHe drew pointed ears and eyes like saucers.  \nHe drew sharp teeth in a playful grin and bigwings on their backs.  \nSoon he'd lost the light and his uncle was callinghim back into the cottage for dinner.He didn'trealise how much time had passed.  \nNoah closed his sketchbook.Loose papers 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