Code Name Flood by Laura Martin

Author:Laura Martin [Laura Martin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2017-03-02T05:00:00+00:00

I’d woken up somewhere new every day for the last two weeks – the only exception being my time spent in the underwater lab, but even then the view out of my window had never been the same twice. So I should have been used to opening my eyes and having that baffling instant where I expected to see the familiar walls of North Compound but instead found myself staring out of a tree house window, or through the filmy fabric of my tree pod, or even at the face of a curious plesiosaur as it peered in to watch me sleep. But I wasn’t. That first morning in East Compound was especially confusing.

I woke up in darkness so complete, so inky black, that I wasn’t even sure if my eyes were open for a second. After my fingertips assured me that they were in fact open, I sat up gingerly, aware of the heavy sleeping bodies on either side of me. Sometime during the night I’d lost my ponytail holder, and now my hair flopped across my shoulders in a tangled curly mess. A blind search of the surrounding floor didn’t turn it up, and I huffed in frustration. I didn’t have another one. It was stupid to let something so small and insignificant bother me, but it did. How was I supposed to function without something to get this mess of curls out of my way?

Shawn came immediately to mind. If he were here, he’d come up with some clever way for me to tie my hair back. Probably using something he’d cobbled together out of a bit of this and a spare part of that. He’d always been so good at that stuff. I sniffed, and realised I had tears running down my face.

“What’s wrong?” Chaz asked groggily beside me, sitting up. “Is it morning yet?”

“No,” Todd groaned from my other side, rolling over. “Go away.”

“How do you know it’s not morning?” Chaz asked indignantly.

“Because I’m still exhausted,” Todd grumbled.

“It’s about time you all woke up,” Ivan said, and a light flicked on overhead. We all gasped as the sudden brightness accosted our eyes.

“Nice hair,” Todd quipped, and I shoved it off my face to glare at him.

“What’s wrong?” Chaz asked gently, putting a hand on my shoulder.

I shrugged her off, looked down at the blanket we’d all slept on, hoping to spot my lost hair tie. “Nothing,” I muttered. “I just lost my stupid hair tie, that’s all.”

“What’s a hair tie?” Todd asked.

“Here it is!” Chaz said triumphantly, scooping it up and handing it to me.

“Thank you,” I sniffed. I’d let them think I’d been crying over a lost hair tie. It was better than admitting how hopeless I felt. I squared my shoulders and turned to Ivan. “We need a map of the compound. Do you know where we can find one?”

“I might.” Ivan nodded. “But a map isn’t going to tell us the location of the Noah’s headquarters. From what your mother told me, that is kept top secret.

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