
You assist Professor Redwood on a compound that seems to erase the pause every organism takes before its next growth spurt, tested on tadpoles your flatmate Cousin Jane bans from the flat, then on chicks entrusted to the Skinners at a remote Kent farm. By May the birds already tower over their run, a wasp has drunk from a spilled jar and escaped through a cracked window, and the rats near the rubbish heap have gone quiet. A keeper arrives with a torn sleeve, certain something oversized just attacked him.
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