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CLUE NUMBER ONE (from north of Kansas City):


For the Hidden Journey:

Heroes refuse to let others be abused by someone who invokes the privileges of self-pity.


For the Puzzle:

Here are the first 5 letters of the puzzle/cryptogram:

c d b i s

To solve the puzzle, collect the other 13 parts and assemble them in order. This is part 1.

                                   


The Story:

Alex says it’s me, but it’s him. It’s got to be him, because this kind of weird griff never happens when I’m alone.

Take our bus ride from Kansas City. It should have been the snooziest cruise in the universe to get to Alex’s uncle’s farm in Liberty. But no, everybody else on the bus makes it to Iowa except us. Why? Alex.

He blames me because I’m the one who bought Old Man Ching’s Dodge, but the Lancer only died because it got sick of Alex bitching about it. It had been running ragged ever since the New Mexico border, and on this melt-lead morning in K.C. it coughs like an old man who’s just sucked his last cig and goes four paws to the sky.

(continued in Chapter One of I-State Lines)


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