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      We both went to the window, to see Miller transfixed on the pavement. And it hit me that there was one person he couldn’t manipulate. Couldn’t push to the brink, because he wasn’t hidebound by all the rules. A peer. And an older one. A bigger, and possibly badder, one. Someone who was genuinely scary.

      ‘I mean it!’ Tyler barked. ‘If I have to come down there …’

      Upon which, as if electrified, or jerked by an invisible string, Miller scuttled up the path and exploded into the hall, then thundered up the stairs to his room before we could get to him.

      I went to follow but Mike placed a hand on my arm. ‘Leave it be,’ he said. ‘I reckon Tyler’s got this one, don’t you?’

      Upon which, the hero of the moment came ambling down the stairs. ‘No need to thank me,’ he said, grinning.