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Slowly, Ilvie draws her hand across the map. “Hey, Leonie, take a look—somebody wrote something here!” she says, trying to decode the old handwriting. Ilvie continues, “Here, it says: ‘Turned three times, turned over three times. The first secret is in the temple of silence and knowledge and the everlasting lightness of life. Anyone who wants to find the treasure has to be very brave. It will take three trips, three stations on the wild, tossing sea …’ What does that mean?”

Leonie celebrates with a squeal and her free eye shines with enthusiasm. “Great-grandmother Grace was always a drama queen,” she says. “And it doesn’t surprise me one bit that she didn’t just hide one treasure map that shows exactly where the treasure is.”

She grins at her new friend and continues joyfully, “Ilvie, we’re going to sea! You’re completely right, my new friend, wherever you came from—we will search for and find this treasure. We’ve got a boat, we have all the charts and equipment that we need, I can sail really well, and we will all learn ­whatever else we have to learn on the way. We’ll set sail and complete ­great-grandmother Grace’s mission. And all of this is due to that great, courageous woman! We have to go, nothing else will do! By the two-headed Scorpaenopsis Lactomaculata!”