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About the Authors

About the Authors

Ethan Bale

Ethan resides in a small cave in rural Latvia with a particularly vicious parakeet called Arthur. He supports Somerset CCC and Sunrisers Hyderabad, and has a strange fondness for plums. When he grows up he wants to be a tree.

Theo Knott

Missing, presumed deceased.

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