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escaped, though,” said Chris. “His youngest son, Zeus.”
    â€œYeah, as I say, I’ve heard of him.”
    â€œAnd when Zeus was old enough, he slit his father’s belly open and freed his brothers and sisters, and that was the end of Cronos.”
    â€œCool story,” said James. “But Cronos was hardly a sicko, was he?”
    â€œHe was pretty sick,” said Jibber-Jabber. “I mean, he chopped his dad’s dangly bits off and chucked them into the sea. That’s pretty sick, I reckon. On a scale of one to ten that’s definitely at least a nine.”
    â€œYeah, I guess.” James had been idly fiddling with a stack of books, poking and prodding them, and now they collapsed across the table.
    Chris tutted. “What are you doing here, anyway?” he said, tidying the books.
    â€œWhat does it look like, noob? I’ve come for your World Book Gay event.”
    â€œAre you supposed to be Harry Potter?” said Wiki.
    â€œNo, I’m supposed to be Uranus ,” said James, pronouncing it “your anus” again. “That’s why I look so ugly and stupid.”
    â€œIf you’ve just come to ruin everything, you can sod off,” said Chris.
    â€œOh, so this is an exclusive event, is it?” said James. “Not open to everyone? I’m not good enough to read your precious books? And there I was thinking maybe you could teach me something.”
    â€œNo, you weren’t,” said Chris. “You’ve just come to laugh at us.”
    â€œYeah,” said Wiki. “This was supposed to be something fun, something for us lot. We don’t need you wrecking it.”
    James put his hands up in surrender, with a pantomime-innocent expression.
    â€œWhat did I do?” he said. “I’m here, aren’t I? I’ve even brought some reading glasses. So what’s the deal? When does it start? Do I get a badge and a certificate saying ‘I am a reading nerd’?”
    â€œGo away, James.”
    â€œI’ve got as much right to be here as you lot.”
    Hattie came over to James. She was tall, with a round face and slightly goofy teeth.
    â€œPlease don’t spoil it for us, James,” she said. “I’ve been really looking forward to this.”
    â€œWho are you supposed to be?” said James, looking Hattie up and down. She was wearing some old-fashioned clothing she’d lifted from the Victoria and Albert Museum next door—a long skirt and a bonnet.
    â€œI’m Elizabeth Bennet from Pride and Prejudice , if you really want to know.”
    â€œI don’t really, no.” James looked at the others, sizing them up. “Okay, Wiki and Jibber-Jabber, what are you? A couple of hobbits from The Lord of the Rings ?”
    â€œYes.”
    â€œThomas? Erm…no. You’re going to have to help me out.”
    â€œI’m Alex Rider.”
    â€œYeah, right. What about you, Chris? You’re a wizard of some sort. Gandalf? Dumbledore?”
    â€œRincewind, actually, from the Discworld novels. Look—you can stay if you want, James, as long as you don’t ruin it for everyone else.”
    James leaned back in his chair, putting his hands behind his head. “I only came to hear the fairy stories.”
    â€œJust ignore him,” said Hattie’s younger sister, Alice (who was dressed as Alice from Alice in Wonderland ). “We can still do what we were going to do.”
    â€œThat’s right,” said James.
    Chris sighed. The event had not got off to a good start. He glanced at the big windows that were set into the wall all down one side of the library, overlooking the parking lot. The stars were coming out. At this rate it was going to be a long night.

    If Chris had looked out the library windows, he might have spotted a dark shape moving across the parking lot. Nobody was supposed to be out here at night, but as part of the security team and the