Chapter 23-Keefe

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"Wait, so you're saying that there was a secret room? In the Forklenator's office?" Keefe asked.

Sophie nodded.

"Why didn't you tell me sooner? I've missed so many prank opportunities with that!"

Sophie rolled her eyes. "We just found it today, idiot." She turned to Forkle. "Do you know anything about it?"

Forkle frowned.

Whoa.

Major wrinkles.

Okay, slightly off topic.

Keefe dragged his attention back to the team.

"No. I don't think it should be even there. That is, the blueprints..."

Dex looked up from the layout of Foxfire. "He's right. There's nothing. That space should just be a wall."

Keefe walked over to him. Dex scooted over, giving him a good look.

"Wait!"

He could feel all eyes on him.

"Yeah?" Sophie said in a tense voice.

"Dude, I didn't know there's an attic above the Universe! If I could fill the vents with verminion feathers..."

Everyone glared at him. "Okay, okay, fine. Look at the date of the blueprints. They're really recent. Too recent."

"Wait, what?" Sophie frowned, pushing aside both the boys.

"Gee, thanks," Dex grumbled, hopping up.

Keefe pointed to the little square in the corner.

"See?"

"All I see is a bar diagram."

Keefe rolled his eyes. "Foster, Foster, Foster. Dex, if you would?"

Dex handed a scanner to him. Keefe flipped open the laser, pointing it directly at the square.

"And, three, two, one." He held it out to Sophie. "Here you go."

Sophie read the date. Her eyebrows went up.
"Weird." She showed it Forkle.

"It had to have been changed," Keefe continued. "By who, I have no idea."

Sophie chewed her lip. "This was like three years ago. School year."

"Explosion," Tam coughed.

Everyone turned to him. "What?"

"Keefe joining the Neverseen?" Tam said.
"They had to fix the office, remember?"

"Low point of my life," Keefe muttered. "But, unfortunately, Bangs Boy has a point."

Biana leaned forward. "Who supervised the office upgrade?"

"Councillors, probably." Wylie shrugged.
Keefe smiled. "All we have to do now, is find the old blueprints, find who changed these ones, and vóila. We have our answers."

"Yeah, that should be easy," Sophie muttered.
Keefe flashed her a smirk. "With you enhancing our handy-dandy Technopath here, it shouldn't be too hard."

Dex looked strangely excited about it.

"Was there anything else, Ms. Foster?" Mr, Forkle said, drawing everyone's attention back to Sophie.

Sophie nodded. "There is, actually." She pulled something out of her satchel. A leather bound book, which looked very old. Sophie held it out to Forkle. "Have you seen this before?"

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