MC2, GMT, Kwesi, Noon and I leap back to The Round, 2048, just in time for breakfast because we’re starving, tether Ewe to a tree and walk down to The Beanstalk. Big Ben does a good job in Fiona this time. I think Fiona helped with the supercharge. She doesn’t look any more squeezed than she did in 2100. He’s parked her where she usually is. Seconds later, Season’s outside. She doesn’t look at any of us, goes straight to Fiona, inspecting all the dents and taking photos of them on her Chronophone.

It’s strange seeing the centre filled with people again, everyone at breakfast sitting in their rows, munching on red muffins, white rolls, yellow bananas. Ama’s sitting with Eve near the food counters. She looks up when we walk in, gasps and runs over faster than leaping.

‘Kwesi!’

Ama cries. She’s crying because she’s happy and sad at the same time but I think she’ll be OK because she hasn’t seen Kwesi for years and now he’s here.

Millennia comes over to us. I’m scared she might kill me in front of everybody because I destroyed a CENTURY of work. She looks like she’s having a fight with her face. Her wrinkles are deeper than when we arrived a few days ago.

‘Welcome back, Time Travellers. Please eat. You are just in time for an early graduation.’

Big Ben immediately goes to the counter and loads up his plate. That boy eats from morning to night. No wonder he’s growing faster than bamboo. I’m glad he’s gone to get food because Season just came back into The Beanstalk. She doesn’t say a word. Just looks at us, which is worse because we don’t know whether she’s Power Surging or doing Anger Management. Her face is red and scrunched up like a fist. I wish she would say something because if she doesn’t she might hit Big Ben and it’ll be Armageddon.

Graduation is horrid. Everyone’s upset because we’ve only been here half a week. We’re supposed to graduate on Saturday morning and it’s only Wednesday. Big Ben and Season are late because he was giving her Ewe as a present to make her face go back to normal. As Season takes her chair on stage, next to MC2, Millennia humiliates Big Ben in front of the whole hall.

‘Is the most famous clock in the world, Big Ben, as bad as you at keeping time?’

When people go up to the stage to get their Leap Permits, they refuse to shake hands with Millennia. At the very end of the ceremony, she clears her throat like grown-ups do when they’re going to say something important.

‘Due to the unfortunate circumstances surrounding our trusted colleague, Mr T, Leap 2048 will terminate after lunch today.’