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For a moment there was nothing but splashing and wet red cloth.

Then children began appearing around it.

Sophie came up beside one enormous painted eye. Wind surfaced with a grin. He was fairly sure he could outswim Maui himself.

Luckily everybody could swim. Everybody was swimming.

Nobody was being a dragon anymore.

“I said WATER dragon!” Wind spluttered. “Not UNDERWATER dragon!”

Sophie burst out laughing. Then everyone else did too.

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