“Suddenly, you hear the bang of a flare gun and duck just in time as a red and green flare rockets past your left ear. The bang scares the dairy cows, who moo nervously. The mare comes to a stop and stares at you, as if you are to blame for the noise.”

Learning to decode words using knowledge of the extended code doesn’t have to be dull.

In this, the 11th and penultimate instalment of our select-your-sequel Scatter-Slayer series of adventure stories, The Scarecrow and Bear Fair in the Land of Nowhere, we focus on words containing <air> and <are>.