Pixels And Poltergeists: An Unveiled Academy Novel (Penny and Boots Book 3) by Amy Hopkins & Michael Anderle

Author:Amy Hopkins & Michael Anderle [Hopkins, Amy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: LMBPN Publishing
Published: 2019-12-19T16:00:00+00:00

Penny leaned over Red’s shoulder, squinting at the screen. “Are you sure it’s them?”

She had spent the last hour pacing the Academy library while Red delved into the shell company’s history. They found little information. Penny’s frustration grew as their search turned up nothing except that the company was cloaked in a tight web of secrecy. Until, that was, Red found an address.

“I’m sure they say it’s them. This is the address they gave the postal service when they registered the game machine business, but it could easily be fake.” Red tapped a few keys. “Here’s where it… Oh.”

The map browser he had tabbed to showed “address invalid.” Penny hissed a sigh of frustration. “Is it even a real street?”

Red tried again, this time leaving a building address off the query. The map popped up, a labeled satellite image showing the region the arcade distributor claimed to operate from. The area looked promising, it was full of oversized industrial buildings and warehouses. “There it is.” Penny ran her finger along one of the lines crossing the screen. “Forty-two, forty-eight, fifty-six, sixty. It just…ends. Where’s number sixty-four?”

Red pushed his chair back, almost rolling over Penny’s toes. “Like I warned you, it’s probably just a made-up location.”

“What’s this?” Penny pointed at a vacant lot at the end of the road, nestled behind two warehouses at the end of a driveway squeezed between them.

“Empty land?” Red shrugged. “Even if that lot had a number, it’s not the sort of place you’d hide a clandestine operation. It backs right onto here—” He scrolled the screen to the left and poked a finger at a cluster of small buildings. “That’s a cluster of yoga studios, organic cafes, and spiritual counselors. Do you really think a massive pseudo-government agency would plant themselves there?”

Penny narrowed her eyes at the new map section. She saw streets and buildings, but no business names. “How do you know what those buildings are?”

He gave a self-conscious laugh and pointed to a small, red-roofed row of structures at an intersection. “Me and Amelia do that sweaty sauna yoga thing there.” He moved his finger over. “Then after, we grab a fresh-squeezed organic juice over here.”

Penny looked at him in surprise. “You? Hot yoga? I can see Amelia getting into something like that, but Red?” She stopped, unsure how to put into words how utterly un-yoga-like Red was.

He laughed. “I’d do anything for Milly. Even twist meself into a pretzel twice a week in a box full of sweaty girls, and drink cucumber, quinoa, and goat’s piss smoothies.”

“They don’t put goat’s piss in it. Do they?” Penny had seen enough weird crazes since moving to Portland that she couldn’t quite discount the suggestion completely.

Red shook his head. “Nah. It’s that cilantro rubbish, I think, but it tastes like piss. It’s good for your chakra or something.”

“Right.” Penny slid the mouse over, scrolling back to the road that should have shown the company involved with the gaming machines. “I might take a look anyway.”

Red grabbed her arm.

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