Trial by Fire by Probst Jeff & Tebbetts Chris

Author:Probst, Jeff & Tebbetts, Chris [Probst, Jeff & Tebbetts, Chris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Childrens, Adventure
ISBN: 9780142424254
Publisher: Puffin
Published: 2013-06-13T06:00:00+00:00

Buzz tried not to look disappointed when Jane came out of the water empty-handed.

“I don’t think those flares are down there,” she said. She lay back on the sun-warmed rocks, her chest still heaving as she tried to catch her breath. “Are you sure they were in the cockpit?”

“Pretty sure,” Buzz said. “But that was before the whole boat got trashed, so . . .”

There wasn’t much to say about that. The flares were probably lost by now.

Jane told them how difficult it had been just getting as far as the cockpit. Reaching the cabin belowdecks was going to be even harder.

“We have to try,” Vanessa said. “I’m going to go down.”

She didn’t wait for an answer. A second later, she dove in and started swimming away from the shore.

While they waited, Buzz looked around at the bits of wreckage strewn on the rocks. If he couldn’t dive, maybe he could at least gather some of it and make himself useful that way. The scrap of teakwood he’d seen before was something they could burn, once they had a fire. Or it could be a shelf. Or even a kind of short spear, with its jagged edge where the wood had broken off.

The twisted piece of steel railing didn’t look like much, but you never knew. With so little to work with here, there was no such thing as trash. He pulled the steel free, too, and put it with the wood.

The only other nearby thing was a pile of shattered glass. It sat at the bottom of a small tidal pool carved into the rocks. He reached down and carefully took out one of the larger shards, turning it around in the light to see what it might become. A knife blade, maybe, if he could figure out a way to fasten it to a stick.

The next shard he took out was curved, like a tiny cup. Buzz scooped it back into the water and held it up. It was too small to drink out of, really, and too sharp around the edges.

But then something caught his eye. A small refraction of light was coming through the glass. It showed up as a single white dot, shining on the rocks.

Buzz tilted the little cup, and the dot jumped. It was on his leg now. He left it there, staring at it, while the germ of an idea started to grow.

Sure enough, it wasn’t long before the bright white dot started to heat up on his skin.

“Um . . . Jane?” he said.

“Just a second,” she said without turning around. Vanessa was just resurfacing, shaking her head no. She hadn’t had any luck, either.

“I’m going to try again!” she yelled, and disappeared beneath the water.

Buzz didn’t move. He held the glass perfectly still, even as the heat from the little dot grew into a burning sensation on his knee. He kept it there for as long as he could stand, then moved it away, grinning like crazy.

This wasn’t just a piece of glass in his hand.

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