Jamie Reign the Hidden Dragon by P J Tierney

Author:P J Tierney
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2014-04-07T04:00:00+00:00

They retrieved Mr Fan from the water and Lucy let him embrace her, even though he was soaking wet. She was careful not to let her hands touch his robes in case they left telltale smudges of engine grease.

When Mr Fan finally let her go, Lucy looked around and said a little too innocently, ‘Why have we stopped?’

‘Do you think we hit something?’ Wing asked.

Jamie shook his head. ‘Um, no.’ He looked to Lucy for help, but she refused to make eye contact. ‘I think the engines might have seized,’ he said in a high voice that almost gave them away.

‘It seems strange that the electricals have gone as well though,’ Wing said.

‘Yeah,’ Jamie said. ‘Strange.’

‘Oh, great,’ Lucy said, throwing her arms up in a dramatic way. ‘How are we going to get back to Chia Wu now?’

‘I don’t know,’ Jamie said as he glared at Lucy, ‘but without any electrical power we can’t radio for help.’

Lucy looked stricken. ‘Oh. That’s not good, is it?’

‘No,’ Jamie said. ‘That’s not good at all. Maybe I should go below to see what actually happened.’

Lucy cringed. ‘Um, yes, that’s probably a good idea.’

Wing frowned at the odd conversation. ‘Are you two all right?’

Jamie sighed. ‘Come on,’ he said. ‘You two can help me.’

The engine room was dark, stuffy and very dirty.

‘Whoa,’ Jamie said as his eyes adjusted. ‘Looks like no-one’s ever done any work on this engine.’

Lucy patted him on the back. ‘Once again, Jamie, excellent choice.’

Jamie swatted her hand away. ‘Don’t you have to go and pee yet?’

She huffed and stuck her nose in the air.

Jamie’s heart sank when he saw what Lucy had done to stop the Lin Yao. She’d yanked the main electrical cable from the control board and its end was now a splayed, frizzy tangle.

Lucy said softly, ‘I thought you wanted an excuse to go to Sai Chun?’

Jamie nodded and took a deep breath. ‘But without any power, I can’t get us there.’

‘I probably didn’t think this all the way through,’ Lucy said.

Wing patted Lucy on the shoulder with his good arm. ‘Jamie will be able to fix it — won’t you?’

‘If I had some tools, I could at least get the radio working,’ Jamie said.

They searched the engine room, then the bridge, and managed to scrounge together a few screwdrivers, a pair of pliers and some loose bits of wire.

‘It’s a start,’ Lucy said hopefully.

They went onto the deck and looked through the storage bin. Mr Fan watched with a slightly bemused expression on his face.

Jamie whispered to Wing, ‘He knows, doesn’t he?’

‘I don’t see how,’ Wing said. ‘You two were so subtle.’

He stood up and flinched in pain. Mr Fan called him over for another antibiotic shot. As Mr Fan changed the dressing, Jamie saw the wound wasn’t healing. It didn’t seem to be getting worse though. He guessed Wing was at a tipping point: more antibiotics and he’d get better; stop the antibiotics and he’d tip the wrong way. And now they were drifting at sea without power, without flares and with a quickly warming cooler bag.

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