Lightning Girl by Alesha Dixon

Author:Alesha Dixon
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic UK
Published: 2018-06-23T04:00:00+00:00

11

“Are you sure this is it?” I asked nervously, peering down at Aunt Lucinda and Alfred from the air duct.

“Oh, yes,” Aunt Lucinda replied, squeezing antibacterial hand gel on to her palms after having given me a leg up so I could remove the grate in the ceiling and climb in. “Thank goodness you’re here! Alfred and I would never have fit in those air vents. Now, as I said, crawl straight that way and then take the first right, then the second left, then left again. You’ll happen upon a package - grab it and then come back here as quickly as possible.”

I gulped and nodded, staring down the dark, cramped tunnel before me. I gave Aunt Lucinda a thumbs up and began to shuffle forwards on my hands and knees, repeating the directions in my head: first right, second left, left again.

Aunt Lucinda had been very vague about the package we had to rescue from this secret hiding place, no doubt trying to protect me from whatever horrible thing was in it. In the car on the way, she explained she’d received information that an evil criminal had hidden a package in the ceiling air vents above a famous London auction house years ago. The criminal was due for release from prison any day now and it was imperative to national security that he did not get his hands on this item.

“If we don’t get there before he collects it –” Aunt Lucinda had whispered, her eyes welling up with tears of fear “– life as we know it will be changed for ever.”

We’d had to break into the back room of the auction house where there was an entrance to the air vents – Aunt Lucinda had come prepared with some blueprints of the building. She was right too about fitting into these air vents; there was no chance she would have squeezed in. My spine was practically scratching along the top of the tunnel. I felt better knowing that I was helping to save the world, even though I didn’t feel very brave as I crawled in the darkness.

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