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Ruby, I'm about to video call Mark, Sandin, and Molly to see how the road trip is going.

You want to join in? Ooh, here I come. Just grabbing a snack.

I know that we're planning on using their new vehicle to tunnel into the earth. I wonder how it's going.

Ruby, my name is so good to see your faces. You too, Molly. Um, is there raining in there?

Rainy? Oh, right because my hair is all wet. Nope. I'm just very sweaty.

Hey, Manica and Ruby. Hi, Sandin. Hey. See? He's super sweaty too.

Yeah, see how I glisten?

It's what really looks good on me. Anyway, we started our journey at the center of the earth,

the core. It was so neat, but also so hot. Yeah, and right now, Mark is piloting in our explorer.

Which stands for extremely practical land and ocean rover exploring remote realms.

Don't you know? I do know. Yeah, so Mark is piloting the explorer through the part inside the

planet called the mantle. It's also very hot. The fact that you feel merely very hot and not

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