Black Waters by Julia Jones

Author:Julia Jones [Jones, Julia]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Tags: Action & Adventure, Childrens, Fiction, Social Issues
ISBN: 9781899262281
Google: NpKfDwAAQBAJ
Amazon: B010GKWI7G
Publisher: Golden Duck
Published: 2015-06-23T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Favours

Friday May 31, lw 0711 hw 1330 lw 1930 hw 0146

Who is taking fotos fgs? #bbarbie has u walking in slave chain gang and larfaminnit has capsize pix going viral. U need 2 stop them asap!

A text from Maggi? That was breaking the agreement. They were only supposed to chat at weekends but her Nokia brick had blipped this morning as soon as she stepped out from Rebow Cottage.

Let them larf. I don’t care. Honest.

It was true, she had no urge to look at Twitter or Facebook or YouTube or any other place where people might be showing off their unkindnesses.

Don’t agree. They r bullies. Shd be stopped. Anna is writing prog to run thru ISP addresses and find source. She says hi.

Say hi back but tell her don’t waste time.

She likes it. Glad u ok xxx

They were like voices from another planet. Her lovely sister Maggi and their incredibly clever maths-geek friend, Anna. It was half term. Maybe they were sitting together on a bus to go shopping or more likely they’d met up at one or other’s house to discuss GCSE revision.

Xanthe wondered whether she should text Anna to

tell her not to bother trying to trace the photo source. Now

that she had begun to guess what her kids might be going through, she couldn’t believe that she’d ever lost a moment’s sleep over Madrigal Shryke and her mind-games.

Except she knew that when Anna had decided to do something, no one could stop her anyway. And Mags was right; Anna did genuinely love complex mathematical challenges. She wrote computer code like other people wrote playlists.

Xanthe sent a couple of smiley faces back, switched her phone off and headed for Godwyn. The barometer was steady, weather set fair and she was planning to take her crew upriver for a picnic sail. After that she had only one more night to sleep in Rebow Cottage and she’d be moving onto the lightship full-time.

There were Companions still cooking breakfast and a comfortable clatter of plates and hum of conversation from the mess room. Food. Good.

But someone stopped her as she was collecting her tray and told her she was wanted in the office.

“Can’t I even grab a coffee?”

“They said immediately. I’ll bring you some.”

“Then could I possibly have toast as well?”

Dominic and Jonjo were either side of the computer screen in the small round office. It felt as if they were in the middle of a quarrel.

“What do you hev to say about these, Xanthe?”

Jonjo’s South African accent seemed more apparent as he struggled to contain his fury.

“About what? I’ve not seen anything. I don’t have internet unless I’m here.”

“Access on Godwyn is monitored and firewalled,” Dominic cut in. “I’m telling you. Xanthe hasn’t used it at all this week. I watch out for her.”

Jonjo was angry with her, Dominic defending. Huh?

“But you hev a camera and you also hev a phone.”

“Yeah. But they don’t link. My mum lent me her Macbook to upload any photos. I’m only allowed to use it for research.

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