The 39 Clues: Unstoppable: Nowhere to Run by Watson Jude

Author:Watson, Jude [Watson, Jude]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2013-09-30T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 19

When Amy and Dan cycled into the village the next morning, Fiona poked her head out of the grocery and gestured at them frantically. They hurried inside, and she closed and locked the door.

“I’ve got a message for you from home,” she said. “Your phones are no longer safe. You’re supposed to destroy them. If you need to communicate, you’re to go to an Internet café. There’s one in the next village. And there is a very slight chance your location was compromised. The advice is to stay put for now. I’m supposed to tell you that a pony is checking everything out?”

“Okay,” Amy said, nodding. She felt her nerves strain at the news.

“Don’t worry. We’ll keep you safe. The whole village is on alert. Which is why . . .” Fiona crossed to the window and peered out behind the shade. Then she let it drop. “There’s someone in town asking for directions to Bhaile Anois,” she said. “He checked in late last night at the inn.”

Amy and Dan exchanged uneasy glances.

“What does he look like?” Amy asked.

Fiona narrowed her eyes. “Sneaky, for certain,” she said. “And he’s quite a waster. Good for nothin’ but complaining. Nora over at the inn said he’s never satisfied with the temperature of his tea, and he asked for a cashmere throw in his room.”

Amy and Dan exchanged another glance.

“IAN,” they said together, and sighed.

“You know the eejit?” Fiona asked.

“The eejit is our cousin,” Amy said.

“Distant cousin,” Dan added. “Very, very distant.”

They strolled over to the front of the inn, where Ian Kabra stood outside arguing with the desk clerk. Their tall, elegant cousin propped a rickety bicycle up with one index finger, as if it would contaminate him. In this rural village, he was dressed in pressed jeans, a navy jacket, and a silky dark T-shirt. He was only sixteen, but he looked older.

“Are you seriously telling me, my good man, that this is the only transportation in the village? Surely there is a car service. Or a garage, where one might hire a car? Even in this backwater?”

The red-haired young man put his hands on his hips. “Why don’t you do this, me boyo? Take a flying leap at the nearest garage yourself? And then you can —”

Dan strode forward and took Ian’s arm. “We’ll take it from here. Thanks.”

“Dan! Amy! Thank goodness you’re here,” Ian said in his plummy British accent. “The locals have been supremely unhelpful.”

“Ian —”

He narrowed his dark eyes. “I was lost on the back roads for hours last night because when I asked some villager if this was Meenalappa, she said no. And I was standing right in the middle of the village! If I ever see that young woman again, I’ll —” Ian’s eyes widened. Fiona was crossing the street to the pub. “Th-there she is!” he sputtered.

“Hi, Fiona!” Dan said, waving.

“Hi, Danny boy!” she trilled back.

“You’re acquainted with that creature?”

“Relax, Ian.” Dan tried to hide his grin. “She was just trying to protect us.

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