Traction City by Philip Reeve

Author:Philip Reeve
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: 2011-05-02T16:00:00+00:00

7

It’s a funny thing, but now he knows what it is, Smiff can’t get the Stalker out of his head. It’s the biggest thing that’s ever happened in his small life, that robed giant barging past him, pruning Costa’s boys like weeds. It seems a pity not to get another look at it; a proper look like, before Sergeant Anders blows its mean old machine soul to the Sunless Country.

When they’ve gone, Anders and Nutter with the girl between them, leaving Constable Pym to mind the shop, he sits a while longer by the station stove. Eyes the biscuit tin, but knows the nice ones are all gone. He sits and thinks about his Stalker, and wonders what it’s doing now.

Constable Pym has his long nose in those filing drawers again. As soon as that girl said her name he knew he’d seen it somewhere. He flicks through the file marked S and soon finds what he’s looking for. An alert issued nearly a year back, brought to London a month or so ago by some wandering aeronaut. Anna Fang. Escaped Slave: Wanted for Theft of Money and Airship Parts by the Direktorate of Arkangel. There’s a grainy photograph of the girl, younger and acne-speckled, but that stripe of white hair is unmistakable.

Eager to share this latest breakthrough (his second in one night!) Pym turns to show the sheet to Smiff. “Hey, look at this! No wonder she hates Traction Cities!”

But Smiff is gone. The biscuit tin’s gone with him.

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