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It was only after the trunk was disinterred... Swathed in fluorescent peach reflective stripes, the search party had set off, torches aloft, in the penumbral half-light, eager, zestful and optimistic. Their task, the exhumation and recovery of a box of documents from confidential lab work undertaken by M15 during the height of the Kong offensive had seemed straightforward enough at the outset. This initial impression, though, proved naïve. The forest was denser, the tracks fainter, the maps less reliable and the mosquitos more aggressive than the ‘initial surveys’ had led them to believe. As dawn approached, their spirits sapped even the serendipitous finding of a break in the ubiquitous moss, failed to raise morale or pulse. What did, though, change the mood was the timbre of shovel on oak some three feet into the excavation. There it was. In many ways modest, a small casket shrouded by cobwebs...

Source: Archives of Disease in Childhood - June 19, 2023 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Brown, N. Tags: Highlights from this issue Source Type: research