Slayers by C. J. Hill

Author:C. J. Hill
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-02-19T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 21

After Jesse finished talking to Rosa, he went to find Dirk. “You want to raid the kitchen?” he asked. That was their code for talking privately. Back during Dirk’s first year at camp, they actually had raided the kitchen one night while everyone else slept. Dirk knew how to pick locks—had practiced it the same way he’d practiced martial arts. They’d broken into the kitchen, taken a couple ice cream sandwiches from the freezer’s stash, and sat on the floor talking for half an hour.

It had become a tradition after that. Once every summer, they broke in, and despite the ice cream sandwiches that went missing, they’d never been caught.

Dirk said, “Sure,” but instead of walking toward the main camp, they went into the forest behind their cabins. These days, they broke into the kitchen only near the end of the month. After a few minutes, the two found a sturdy tree and went up it. Jesse flew and Dirk half climbed, half jumped up the branches.

Jesse always felt more relaxed, more in control, when he was up high. He could see the world spread out beneath him, like a chess player looking down at the board.

After they were both situated on branches, Dirk asked, “What’s up, besides us?” Then he leaned back against the trunk while raising his eyebrows. “Let me guess. You want to talk about Tori.”

Jesse did want to talk about Tori, but that’s not why he asked for this meeting. Besides, he wouldn’t have known what to say about her. In the short time she’d been here, she’d mostly managed to frustrate him. Although if he was being honest, she also made him feel guilty because he knew he was being hard on her; and he felt worried because he was afraid her training would be too little too late. And he had other feelings, ones he shouldn’t have because he was a fellow Slayer. And her captain.

“It’s not about Tori,” Jesse said. “I found out something you should know.” He gazed down at the ferns that grew like miniature fountains over the forest floor.

“What?” Dirk asked.

It was hard for Jesse to betray Dr. B’s confidence. Two years earlier, he wouldn’t have done it, but now, well, Dr. B always told them to think for themselves. All last summer Dr. B had emphasized that the Slayers—especially the team captains—had to make decisions on their own. Dr. B couldn’t be in the thick of things, fighting the dragons with them. They had to take charge.

So Jesse had been mulling over the matter all day. “Dr. B can trace our phones from his laptop. If Overdrake got hold of it and broke through the passwords, he could find any of us. Dr. B doesn’t want the other Slayers to know. He’s afraid if they do a Leo and Danielle, they could inadvertently leak the information. But I thought you should know. At some point, the phones could be a liability.”

Dirk nodded, his expression growing serious. He didn’t speak for a few moments, but Jesse hadn’t expected him to.

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