Burning for Revenge by John Marsden

Author:John Marsden [Marsden, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

So I could understand how those guards at the airfield had stuffed up so badly. I just hoped they wouldn't get a note on their records about it. It'd be a shame for their careers to suffer.

Even as I thought about them I heard another explosion in the distance, from the direction of the airfield. I don't know what that was about. We came over a small rise, where some sheets of galvanised iron and the ruins of a fence were all that remained of a stockyard. Away to our left was a huge grey cloud of smoke. It was a funny shape, lying across Wirrawee like a thick table, a sort of slab of smoke. But it stretched for miles. We grinned at each other. Still there were no vengeful helicopters, no furious jets buzzing around, no movement in the sky at all. We must have done terrible damage to their fleet of aircraft, if they couldn't even get one off the ground to look for us.

Now our exhaustion started to get flooded by excitement. It seemed incredible what we had done. I found myself walking faster and faster, till I seemed to be going too fast. If I'd had an engine it would have been overrevving. Even Kevin picked up his pace. We could have been running on red cordial. Homer and I exchanged a few comments, only quietly, because we weren't too deep in bush, but we had to express how fantastic and enormous it seemed, how lucky we'd been.

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