The Race by Ian Berry

Author:Ian Berry
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Girls adventure, love, Saskia, super powers, Supergirl, Supergirls, super girls, SuperTwins, flying, save the world, adventure, time travel, invulnerable, bullets bounce off, being a girl, dancing, saving lives, fantasy, bodyguard, protecting people, the future, friends
ISBN: 9781783332953
Publisher: Andrews UK
Published: 2013-11-04T05:00:00+00:00

Eleven

Monday. The phone never stopped ringing. Saskia commandeered Melanie’s phone and pulled it over to her desk. Melanie we sent to work at Jeff’s desk. We told Petra we now had two lines.

One call was from Ben at the PM’s office.

“Saskia, I need to apologise again for Friday night.”

“No you don’t. These things happen. Watch out with the apologising or I’ll get Accounts to double the bill when we get it.”

“Thanks anyway. Er. You might get a few phone calls during the day, we sent out the last email shot a little while ago.”

“A few he says. I can’t touch my phone, it’s so hot.”

“Sorry. Any problems, use this number.”

Saskia put her phone down at the same time. “Mine was Archie. He’s had an email from the PM’s office with details for Thursday on it. He says thanks for fixing it.”

“Mine was Ben, grovelling again.”

While I was talking to Saskia the blasted phone rang again. “Hello, Saskia Chandler.”

“Oh, hi. BBC News 24 here. We’re going to descend on you on Thursday I think.”

“You and everybody else,” I laughed. “You going live?”

“Hope to. What facilities have you got?”

“You’ll need an uplink truck, we don’t have outgoing lines. We’ve got a parking area facing more or less south and a nice cable and people access for you. No power I’m afraid, you’ll need to use the truck genny. Want me to email you a plan?”

“Have you done this before? A plan would be great. Shame about power.”

“I’m expecting umpteen links and camera trucks, not practical to supply everybody with power and not fair to do one and not the others.”

“Point taken. Can we come and do a recce? Oh, and BT will be along to install temporary circuits. There’ll be a lot of those, not just for us.”

“Welcome any time, just turn up and announce who you are, probably not you but you know what I mean. Oh and one other thing, cafeteria will be on standby except during lunch, then it’ll be full of the PM and his hangers-on.”

“Brilliant. See you later, bye.”

As I put my phone down, Saskia picked hers up. With a certain amount of pride, I heard her say more or less the same things I had to her caller. When she ended her call I had observations for her.

“Well done, you, That was really good.”

“Had lessons from the expert.”

“And who is this paragon?”

“You, of course. I listened - and remembered. Mine was ITN.”

“Mine was the Beeb. Need to talk to Maintenance and find out where our telephone lines come in. Oh, and the electrician.”

“Ok. Get Petra to take messages for a while. I could do with a walk.”

“What you mean is a walk past the cafeteria.”

“Not so much past, more sort of into.”

Maintenance were happy to show us where the phone lines entered the building. They didn’t want anybody mucking about with them - and said so.

“All right then, do you know where the main junction is out on the road?”

“No idea. Nothing to do with us really.

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