Jane Blonde: Spy in the Sky by Jill Marshall

Author:Jill Marshall [Marshall, Jill]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780330479424
Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books

Maddy’s flight was eerily quiet – just a barely audible hum and the gentle swoosh of her white wings breaking the silence. Janey kept the cave and the pterodactyl in her sights on the Ultra-gogs, steering Maddy in the direction of the little red blob on the tiny screen, and the bigger red blob swooping menacingly above it. Trouble crouched between Janey’s knees, his great golden tail now so enormous and bushy that it tickled her chin. Janey pulled back on Maddy’s ears so they all rose higher into the night sky.

The pterodactyl was flitting between the tops of two cranes, seeming to move so slowly and deliberately that it looked as though it was hanging in mid-air. Janey swallowed, a little nervous. The closer they got, the bigger the creature looked, and the more vulnerable little James appeared, swinging dangerously in the wired top of the crane.

‘OK, team,’ she whispered to her spy-pets. ‘We’re going to have to distract that thing for me to get close enough to grab Jamie. Can you do that?’

Trouble arched his back, preening. No doubt that he could do it. Maddy just let out the tiniest of ‘paaas’, in what sounded like a confident sheep voice. ‘Up then, Maddy, please. We need to get above old Ptera there.’

She was trusting her safety and James’s to an untested squirrel suit, but as there didn’t really seem to be much choice she put that thought out of her mind. ‘Here we go,’ she hissed, as Maddy hovered above the menacing, spiky shape of the pterodactyl. ‘On three – I’ll go this way –’ she pointed – ‘and you two go that way.’

This is all a bit mad, she thought as she carefully got to her feet on Maddy’s polished rounded seat. She’d soon find out whether the suit worked. After a few moments to steady herself, she stood up and stretched out her arms. Instantly the wind filled the sails beneath her arms and she swayed back and forth, staggering to keep her footing on Maddy’s back. It’s now or never, Blonde, she told herself sternly. ‘One . . . two . . . THREE!’

She launched herself up and out against the backdrop of cranes, mechanical equipment and half-built megastores against the starry sky, her profile in the shadows identical to the prehistoric creature she was chasing. She flew up and back, caught by the wind that made the arm-sails and the flap between her feet billow and snap. For a moment she spun, fearing she was going to drop, and then suddenly she stretched her arms out and found some kind of jet stream. The next instant she was soaring, swooping, skydiving, angling her body this way and that to catch the eddies that were holding her up, the wind whistling across the dome of her helmet. ‘This is superb!’ she cried, forgetting for a moment that she was on a mission.

Too late. The pterodactyl had heard her. It cocked its head, a beady eye penetrating the darkness.

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