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Eleven Mostly-Functional Adults

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We followed the crayon maze down a hallway to a door marked "VAULT" in fancy gold letters. "No way," breathed Lola. "The mouse was right." She pushed it open. Inside sat one enormous cheese wheel on a velvet pillow, glowing under a spotlight.

Dennis stepped up to lift the golden cheese wheel and grunted. It didn't budge. "It's bolted down," he wheezed. "Who bolts down a cheese?" Lola read the tiny plaque on the pillow out loud. "Award-Winning Display Cheese. Made of wax." She looked up. "It's fake. The whole vault is fake."

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Dennis sat down on the velvet pillow, defeated. "All this for a wax cheese." Then he spotted a small fridge humming in the corner, unlocked, packed with real award-winning wheels. He grinned. "Boys. The fake one was the decoy. The real ones were never guarded." We cheered way too loudly.

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