The Dead Drop by Jennifer Allison

Author:Jennifer Allison
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA), Inc.
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

After recovering from their shock, Gilda’s spy recruits seemed to decide that the face on their video screens must be part of the surveillance test—something intentionally created by the Spy Museum to scare them.

“Like I said before, I bet a rat agent from another spy team is sabotaging our surveillance equipment,” The Misanthrope suggested.

“That’s a good theory,” said Gilda. “We’d better all keep our eyes open for double agents.” The truth is that he just saw a ghost, she thought.

Deciding that everyone needed to recover from the surveillance activity and hoping to learn more about the events of the morning, Gilda sent her team on a bathroom break and told them to meet her back in the Ultra Room for lunch.

It’s very weird that at the moment, I’m acting as an adult who’s concealing true information from kids. It’s ironic because I HATE it when adults do that. On the other hand, I now understand something: I think so-called grown-ups hide or even lie about the truth when they don’t have a clue what to say about it to kids. They’re scared and confused and don’t know how to explain what’s going on, so they don’t say anything. For example, if the grown-up in charge (me) doesn’t know exactly who or what that face on the video screens was that we all saw, how are the kids supposed to feel safe? Hence, not talking about it at all and hoping they’ll forget they ever saw it.

Deciding that everyone needed to recover from the surveillance activity and hoping to learn more about the events of the morning, Gilda sent her team on a bathroom break and told them to meet her back in the Ultra Room for lunch.

With a couple minutes to spare before lunchtime, Gilda decided to take the opportunity to look for Roger in his office.

Roger worked on a laptop computer, but most of his workspace resembled a utility closet.

Gilda opened the door to find Roger sitting in a chair with his eyes closed as if he had dozed off without realizing it. “Oh! Sorry.”

Roger rubbed his eyes. “Was I asleep?”

“Maybe just for a minute.”

“Don’t tell April. She’s loves that I’m experiencing this whole colicky baby thing on top of everything else going on here. She thinks it’s hilarious. ‘See, Roger? Now you know how I felt a couple years ago.’” Roger took off his baseball cap, rubbed the top of his head as if this might help wake him up, and reapplied the baseball cap. “To be honest,” he said, “I’m still kind of spooked out by that stuff in the audio room.”

“Good thing you weren’t in the video room a few minutes ago.”

“What happened?”

Gilda explained what she and her spy recruits had just seen—the woman’s face that had suddenly peered at them through the video screens.

“I’ve seen a lot of technical problems, but this is definitely the weirdest. I even started to wonder whether someone might be tampering with the equipment or the software in the control room.

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