Extra 3: Little Phil

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PHIL

I know it. 

"Sherry, I think it's morse code! I've seen it on the book in the library."

"Oh! A code? I saw Norman reading a book about codes!"

It was like that.

"H-A-R-V-E-S-T."

"Harvest? What's harvest? Is it like what farmers do when their crops are already grown up?" Sherry asked.

"Uhuh! Oh! Look Sherry there are more books with this symbol! this is 'Truth' and this is..." I blinked my eyes twice. 

M-O-N-S-T-E-R.

All of the books that have owl symbols have a coded message. All of them are weird, but I think they are fun to decode.

Like a decoding game.

I wonder what are these words?

I think there would be something interesting with those words if I put them up together. 

Truth, Run, Danger, Monster, Harvest... and Farm.

I glanced at the other books on a big shelf. There are still a lot of books that have a Minerva Symbol on the back of their cover. Every word on them is weird, it's like a warning.

But why would Mr. Minerva put those coded words on a book?

I know that something is going on in our house.

Does Emma know this? How about Mom?

"Let's say goodbye to Hao!"

"Don't worry Everyone! I will write you a letter!" Hao waved his hand to us. "Bye Emma! Bye Norman! Bye Ray! Bye Don! Bye Gilda! Bye, Everyone! I will miss you a lot!"

"Me too!" Emma exclaimed cheerfully.

"Bye-bye Hao," Said a soft and gentle voice. The girl was standing before Don and she was carrying a bunny in her hands while waving her hands at Hao. "Take care."

"Bye Conny! Take care of yourself as well."

Conny smiled softly at Hao. "Hehe, Let's meet again when we grow up," She replied.

"Of course!"

But that will be the last time that we will see Hao... 

He never wrote a letter.

Because he's gone.

"It's okay Conny! Just do your best in the next test! Don't be sad okay?" Emma said to Conny when her score was announced today. "Look, your birthday is near! You're turning six!"

"I'm turning six?" Conny asked Emma.

"September 3," Ray suddenly said. He closed the book in his hand. "It's your birthday next week, did you forget?"

"Woah, Ray knows everything."

"It's easy to remember things like that," Ray answered. "Emma's birthday is on August 22 while Norman's on March 21. Don is turning 11 on July 4, and Phil's birthday is on July 31."

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