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In the realm of many suburban-raised children, the concept of "adventure" was very rarely something organic. ‘Adventure’ was something seen through those same cable-free cartoons you'd watch on Saturday mornings that would always come to a happy conclusion after a neat, consistent twenty minutes of runtime. ‘Adventure’ was something designed from story time in the elementary school library, where you'd all be ferried to that little nook in the back once a week, and you'd be introduced to literary necessities for a developing creative mind: something like "The Giving Tree," "The Very Hungry Caterpillar," or a classic penned by Dr. Suess. ‘Adventure’ couldn't exist of its own volition, when the world was designated to you block by block, curfew by curfew. It was always “go run around outside,” but it was never “your small town has been ransacked! Pick up this sword and save your friends and family!”
So, in the way of many suburban children, Aubrey and the others had learned to be resourceful in their inorganic adventure-making, and quite clever about it. At least, they thought they were quite clever.
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Aubrey climbs a fence.