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She picked them back up, gently, and put them in her pocket. She rushed back to her bicycle and pedaled as hard as she could. She had to reach home. Her older brother would know what to do about this. He always knew what to do. Every now and then, she stopped to feel for the caterpillars with her fingers, just to be sure she was not imagining the whole thing. She wondered again about the message on the collar. “Return to Earth.” What could that mean? She was moving so fast that she barely had time to see the pothole in front of her.

Should she hit the pothole and fall off her bike? or Should she see the pothole in time and swerve to avoid it?