Risked (The Missing ) by Haddix Margaret Peterson

Author:Haddix, Margaret Peterson [Haddix, Margaret Peterson]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Published: 2013-09-03T00:00:00+00:00

TWENTY-TWO

Jonah and Katherine and Chip told one another everything they’d witnessed and figured out since they’d gone in different directions. By then the Romanovs were finished with their supper.

“What?” Katherine asked Jonah in surprise. “You’re not scurrying over there to eat their leftovers?”

Jonah had been starving in practically every single time period he’d ever visited. In 1903 he’d eaten scraps from Albert Einstein’s table and from abandoned plates in railroad-station restaurants. In 1600 he’d eaten what seemed like an ocean’s worth of fish. In 1483 he’d eaten hard crusts of bread and wished for pizza or lasagna.

But somehow he couldn’t even think about food right now.

“Not hungry,” he mumbled.

Katherine nodded.

“Got it,” she said. “Neither am I.”

“Sometimes it’s better not to eat before a battle,” Chip agreed.

He’s thinking of what lies ahead as a battle? Jonah wondered.

That made Jonah feel even worse.

The entire Romanov family began moving back into the living room. Jonah, Chip, and Katherine followed Anastasia/Daniella and Alexei/Gavin and, in hasty whispers, tried to fill them in as much as they could on the exact details of the plan. Chip had figured out which gate the whole group could walk through once they were invisible; he’d also scouted out an empty shed nearby where the whole group could rest and decide their next step.

“Why don’t you just make us all invisible now?” Daniella asked, hiding her words as she bent over to pick up some unfinished needlepoint. “None of us are doing anything important to history, as far as I can tell.”

It appeared that she was right. The whole family was settling back into more listless card-playing, reading, and sewing. They were just passing time.

But Jonah whispered back, “We can’t know for sure. We don’t want to damage time any more than we have to. And anyway, Chip says we’ve got a better chance of getting away if we’re outdoors when we turn everyone invisible. The guards will have to take everyone outside to get them to the basement, because there’s only that one door.”

He couldn’t explain anything else because Maria leaned too close to Anastasia just then, asking, “Do you think I’ve hemmed this skirt well enough, or should I tear out this section and start again?”

She held up a threadbare black skirt. It looked like she was moving the hem to hide the spots where the fabric had worn thin.

Wish it were that easy to fix time, Jonah thought. I’d like to start again with this whole trip—with a fully working Elucidator. And with open communications with JB, so he could tell us the best way to handle all of this. . . .

Except—would Jonah want that? Wouldn’t JB disapprove of this plan every bit as much as he’d disapproved of some of the things Jonah had done in 1903? And hadn’t it turned out then that Jonah was right and JB was wrong?

Oh, God, you approve of what we’re planning, don’t you? Jonah prayed again.

Jonah’s parents had taken him and Katherine to church their whole lives,

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