A Web of Lies by Adam Frost

Author:Adam Frost [Adam Frost]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781847157485
Publisher: Stripes Publishing
Published: 2016-10-23T04:00:00+00:00

The ravine was hundreds of metres deep and hundreds of metres wide.

How am I going to get across? he thought to himself. Do I even need to get across?

The words of the message echoed again: The ground drops away soon…

That suggested he was on the right trail.

But don’t jump till noon.

That was crazy. Nobody could jump across a huge canyon.

Wily looked at his sky sticks. Albert had said they could reach to about two-hundred metres. He looked over at the other side.

“Worth a try,” he said out loud.

He aimed at a tiny shape – it looked like a boulder of some kind – and fired. The ribbon shot forwards, traced an arc through the air and then dropped into the abyss. It hadn’t even got halfway across. He needed another plan.

Glancing up and down his side of the canyon, Wily looked for signs of bridges or walkways. He couldn’t see any, but he did spot a small group of opossums looking at the other side of the ravine and then looking up at the sun and then looking down into the ravine. What were they doing?

A few minutes later, they were joined by a family of porcupines. They all glanced at the sun and then down into the ravine.

Wily too looked up at the sun: it was right in the middle of the sky. Almost noon.

He wanted to call out to the other animals and ask them what they were doing. But just as he was about to speak, they all stepped forwards and jumped off the edge of the canyon.

Wily had a split second to think.

These animals knew something he didn’t. They couldn’t be jumping to their deaths. He ran forwards and jumped into the ravine.

As he fell, he pulled out his sky sticks. If he fell by more than two-hundred metres, he wouldn’t be able to fire a ribbon and pull himself out. He was plummeting like a stone, twenty metres, forty metres, sixty metres. Had he just made a huge mistake?

Another second flashed by.

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