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Rosaline wished Adelaide and Victoria were here. They’d be able to solve the mystery. After some arguing. Even imagining them arguing made her smile. No - they weren’t here. It was only Rosaline now. Solving problems was not her strong point but it was all up to her now. Rosaline looked at the list of suspects. She laid their photos and documents out on the table and studied them. The first suspect was a royal guard. Vinnie Dionne, who’d been a guard for over 30 years. He’d been fairly loyal – the only reason he was a suspect was because he was hanging around the servant’s quarter, even off duty. That was hardly a cause of concern. But Rosaline trusted Victoria’s instincts more than her own. If Victoria thought him to be suspicious …show more content…

She was supposed to investigate the castle. So her walking around the castle should not aroused suspicion.
Rosaline came across a door made of steel. It was incongruous – everything else in the castle was elegant, the doors were made of finely crafted mahogany. She tried the handle. It was locked. It was probably best she didn’t go down there. Who knows what happen if she was caught? This was a place they clearly wanted to keep a secret. That only intensified Rosaline’s curiosity. There was a strong smell coming from the ventilation grilles. It smelled like metal and sulphur. Rosaline leant down and looked through the filters. There were people in long white coats and goggles, carrying vials. There were many shelves of test tubes and everything was sterile white. It could only be a laboratory. Why would a castle have a lab? A secret lab.

Rosaline waited by the door until someone came out the lab. Then she jumped them. They tumbled to the ground, the woman struggled and squirmed but Rosaline was sat on her back. She punched the woman’s temple knocking her out. Rosaline took the woman’s lab jacket and her goggles. When she walked into the lab, no one questioned her. She pushed around a cart around, trying to replicate the behaviour of the scientists. She looked around in bewilderment at all the test tubes. All different colours, various ones bubbling. She slipped a

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