Spyforce Revealed by Deborah Abela

Author:Deborah Abela
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Australia
Published: 2002-08-31T04:00:00+00:00

‘Whaaa!’ exclaimed Max as she was thrust head first out the other side of the Wall of Goodness into a gaping tangle of lush fern leaves.

‘Congratulations!’ Steinberger exclaimed to her awkwardly positioned backside sticking out of the fern. ‘You made it. It’s one of the toughest tests within Spyforce. You don’t have to be truly evil to be denied entry. The wall will even stop people simply for not having the best interests of the agency at heart. Anyway, how was it?’

Max weeded herself out of the clinging fronds to see Linden’s and Steinberger’s eyes lit up like fireworks on New Year’s Eve.

Only she hadn’t been invited to the party.

She was furious.

‘How was it?’ The way she asked the question, Linden knew her answer wasn’t going to be pretty. ‘I was just mauled by an arrogant wall that slobbered all over me like elephant’s drool and treated me as though I was a leftover piece of modelling clay. And when it’d finally had enough of me it vomited me out face first into this pile of nature clutter.’

Steinberger was disappointed that Max didn’t seem to have enjoyed her experience.

‘You did unfortunately have a rather bumpy landing,’ he apologised. ‘Most people come out of it a little more gently than you did. In fact, that’s the first time I’ve seen anyone have such a rough landing.’

Max plucked greenery from her hair and dropped it to the floor.

‘Max has many talents, Mr Steinberger, but gentle landings isn’t one of them.’ Linden’s explanation failed to amuse Max and earned him one her well-measured glares.

‘Thanks, Mr Hilarious. The world has just become a better place now that it can add that joke to its list.’

‘I assure you both, that is the last of our identification procedures,’ Steinberger promised. ‘If you’d like to make your way through the green aisle in front of us we will meet our next important Spyforce agent.’

They were in a multi-level greenhouse where there seemed to be almost every different kind of plant in the world. There were weeping willows, oaks, eucalypts, jacarandas, fruit trees, flowers of all kinds, multicoloured algae, mosses and funguses splattered on rocks and cliffs, cactuses in special desert areas, palms, shrubs, bulbs, grasses, vines and waterlilies.

Max strode ahead at Steinberger’s invitation, careful not to trip over any vines or roots that might be lying in front of her.

‘Don’t worry about her.’ Linden leant into Steinberger. ‘She really is a nice person. It just doesn’t come as naturally to her as it does to other people.’

Linden smiled a sweeping grin before he and Steinberger made their way down the palm-strewn pathway.

Among all the greenery were white-coated people beavering away like termites building a vast natural city. They were spraying, weeding, pruning, clipping and watering. They were leaning over boiling pots, crushing roots, extracting oils and dissecting delicate flower stems. Some were even standing on small white platforms hovering like dragonflies at the tops of the tallest trees.

In the middle of the greenhouse was a woman in a long red coat with her hair dressed up on her head like a overloaded beehive.

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