Rescue On Nim's Island by Orr Wendy

Author:Orr Wendy [Orr Wendy]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 978 1 74343 445 1
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: 2014-12-28T16:00:00+00:00

‘We need you to be safe outside with Ollie,’ said Nim, ‘because, just in case … if anything happened … you could go for help when Jack and your parents get back.’

That was the scariest thing of all. Saying out loud that something could go wrong meant it really could.

Nim led the others back through the fossil tunnel and back into the main cave. Silently, they tiptoed beneath the dangling, sleeping bats, around the maze of stalagmites, deeper and deeper into the heart of the mountain. The glow-worms disappeared: the dark was darker, the air was danker, and the musty bat smell wasn’t getting any weaker.

Maybe there isn’t another way out, a voice whispered in Nim’s head. Maybe you’ll be trapped here forever.

We’re not trapped, she told it. If we can’t find another tunnel we’ll just go back. Lance and Leonora are scientists. They’re not going to hurt us.

The dim glow from her headlamp shone into a different darkness. She’d found another tunnel.

The floor was moist and slippery. It sloped downhill more steeply than the cave, and was deeper in the middle than the sides, as if it had been neatly hollowed out. By water, Nim thought. This is the watercourse that comes out above Waterfall Cliffs!

She was about to whisper the good news when the nasty little voice in her head said, Or it’s an underground creek that runs into an underground pool – and you’ll never get out!

Nim decided she wouldn’t say anything yet.

‘At least we can’t get lost now,’ Edmund whispered in her ear.

It was true. The tunnel was narrow and the only other openings were small nooks or alcoves, as if someone had thought about making a window or a door and then remembered that there was nowhere for it to go. All Nim had to do was keep on going, and all the others had to do was follow.

That didn’t stop her stomach squirming with fear. Because even if they weren’t exactly lost, they didn’t know where they were, and they didn’t know where Lance and Leonora were or what they were doing. And even though they were going as quickly as they could, it wasn’t very fast because the tunnel was dark and the ceiling was low. Nim had to walk with her head bowed, and Edmund had to crouch. Ollie was the only one who could walk normally. He was still tied to Tiffany by the sleeping sheet, but he kept rushing ahead, sliding and bumping into Edmund.

Then they were all slipping, skidding down the tunnel. The floor was as slimy as a hungry slug, and so were the walls. They slid down as if they were going down the rainforest waterslide. It would have been fun if it hadn’t been so dark and they hadn’t been so scared of Leonora and Lance hearing them. But it was dark, and they were scared – all except Ollie.

‘I’m going fast!’ he squealed. ‘Fast, fast, FAST!’

‘SHH!’ everyone else hissed.

But Ollie squealed and skidded again, passing Edmund and Nim, and Tiffany skidded behind him.

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