How Huge the Night by Heather Munn

Author:Heather Munn
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9780825401985
Publisher: Kregel Publications
Published: 2011-03-09T04:00:00+00:00

Niko woke when the truck stopped, her cheek on a hard bag of flour, her mouth open. It was almost pitch dark.

“Got your crutches?”

“Ready.”

He was peering out the tiny, side window. Beneath her, she felt the engine cut out.

“Now,” said Gustav. She heard him slide to the back and open the door. In the red glow of the taillights, she slid forward between the flour bags, set her crutches on the ground and swung down. Cold air met her. “Behind that rubbish heap,” whispered Gustav, and she followed him, quietly—they heard voices ahead, people standing far off in the light of the headlights, a low square building with lit windows—she ducked behind the heap and breathed quietly in the dark.

The sound of the engine again, the truck moving off toward the building. Then voices in Italian, the thump of the huge flour bags being unloaded. She looked around, but it was deep dark. Thick clouds hid the moon. Then the truck was coming back, and in the light of the headlights, she saw it and cried out. Gustav jumped to his feet as he saw it too: a tall gate swinging open, framed by high, chain-link fence topped with razor wire. In the red glow of the taillights they saw it swing shut; closed by two uniformed men.

Gustav sank to his knees. “Oh, Niko,” he whispered.

Niko said nothing. There was nothing to say.

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