Flight of the Griffons by Kate Inglis

Author:Kate Inglis
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Nimbus
Published: 2014-05-07T16:08:04+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Course of Action

“It’s waterproof.”

Birdie took the sheet of paper, filmy-thin, and rolled it tight. Then she slipped it into the tube and closed the cap, and held the message moth up to the light between her thumb and forefinger. After fastening the note to its underbelly, she set it legs-down on the table and plugged it into a laptop computer.

“We program the destination—” She typed the address into the computer. “Then off it goes. It stays pretty high until it’s over the target, then it dives.”

It was a pretty thing, a silvery dark grey with transparent wings stretched over a metal skeleton and antennae to confirm delivery. It was eerily true to life except for its lack of eyes and mouth—a wordless, sightless creature—and its giant size, making it a pirate in the realm of everyday moths.

“Does it come back?”

“Depends on how far,” she said. “We talk to friends this way. Mostly, they just save them for us to use again.”

“What if it’s got a long way to go?” It seemed too delicate for such a big sky. “I mean, my note…”

“That’s one of the best parts.” Birdie reached behind her and turned back around with a small metal circle in the palm of her hand. “Gwynne came up with a long-life battery. It can’t cross the sea. Not yet. But it can go from one side of the country to the other, or almost. It may take a few days, but it’s faster than Canada Post. It can sure make it to…where, again?”

Missy rose from the table with the moth in her hand.

“Nova Scotia. The Bramble, to…” She halted. “To the Dreads.”

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