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Suzy Winnicroft was just an ordinary twelve-year-old girl when she met an unusual character called Scratch, a special creature called a paxtey, who introduced her to a whole race of beings like him who lived in her local warren by the sea. Suzy soon finds that there is a special reason for her discovery, and she embarks on an adventure with Scratch after unusually fierce storms that begin with an evil voice in the mist.