25th
Excerpt
from: Tales of Voyager
How do you know?”
“I’m not sure. Intuition probably,” Kes answered.
“There’s nothing that can be done about it now.”
“That’s true. But I also didn’t know about the Queen.”
“Tuvok mentioned her. But what is she?” Janeway asked.
“Seven of Nine would know a lot more. All that I can
guess is that she’s a command aspect of the Collective.”
“Makes them more complex than we expected.”
Words: 68
Excerpt
from: The Loneliness of Alex
She saw that Daria and Jane hadn’t arrived yet. ‘They
won’t be long.’ She looked around at the other students who had arrived early.
Many of them were ordinary, not the popular crowd she despised.
Words: 35
Excerpt
from: Not Amelia, Millie
Millie burst through the front door in a whirlwind of
energy. That seemed to surprise her parents. ‘But then, I think I have become more
energetic, in a way,’ she thought. “Mom, Dad! I’m home!”
“Amelia, darling, is that you?” her mother asked.
That brought Millie up short. She hadn’t told them that
she didn’t go by Amelia anymore. “Please, Mom. It’s Millie now. It’s so much
cooler.”
Her father chuckled. “Well, welcome home, Millie. It’s
good to have you back.”
Words: 81
Excerpt
from: Mystery in the Atlantic
Myka was
still searching the store room when she saw Pete hurry in. “Pete?”
“Myka! I
had a vibe.”
“What
kind of vibe?”
“The
kind that says that there’s something unusual about this place.”
“OK,” Myka
said as she took that in. “But we need to know more.”
“Maybe Claudia
has been looking into the Warehouse records.”
Words: 57
Excerpt
from: The Poet and the Artist
“And the headwaters of the river are near there,” she
said. “To the west.”
“Yes, but the creek I mention in the poem is closer to
there.”
“I’ll probably need to know what the countryside looks
like,” Clare said.
“It’s not much different to around here.”
“That’s a good point. I’ll do it.”
“Thanks,” Elias responded.
Words: 56
Excerpt from:
Troubles in the Recovering Dubbo
Monday,
25 November 1996
Dubbo
was still recovering. That was what was on Daniel’s mind as he arrived at
Delroy High. ‘It will probably take a long time,’ he thought.
“Daniel!”
He
turned and saw Clare Berry coming towards him.
Words:
40
Excerpt
from: Mysteries of Aurora
Freya looked at the directory in the Grand Atrium again. “Renaissance
Art of Aurora, should be in the Renaissance Section.” She found that it was. “Of
course.” But, was Alexia still in the Information Science Section?
She decided to see if Alexia was still there or not
first.
She found that Alexia had left. ‘Not surprising, she had
to go to lunch herself.’
Words:
63
Excerpt
from: Spider Quinn
“Are
you sure?” He asked.
“Enhanced
strength, remember?”
“OK,”
Oliver said. He threw his arms around SpiderGirl and Kalina and SpiderGirl then
swung away, next to the others.
The
Enigma knew when that happened. She then pulled down some of the ceiling on
Mysterio, who was still trying to get up from the trip, and turned and dashed
out the door as she opened her eyes. She kept the forcefield up to shield herself
from the rain and debris.
“The
fourth vigilante has come out,” Peterson said.
“Then
my team will move in now,” Leung decided. “Before the storm gets any worse.”
“Good
idea.”
The
whole group moved carefully through the trees, using SpiderGirl’s webbing and occasionally
Ninja Talon’s zipline, towards the dock. It was difficult, but not impossible,
especially with Kalina refusing to let go of SpiderGirl. ‘I’m not a therapist!
I haven’t even been to grief counselling yet!’ SpiderGirl thought.
“Almost
there,” Ninja Talon said.
“It’s
still a lot of trees,” Dafoanairi said.
“We
can do it,” SpiderGirl said. “But I need to be unencumbered.”
“I
can take her,” Ninja Talon said.
“Is
that alright, Kalina?” SpiderGirl asked.
“Yes,”
Kalina answered.
Ninja
Talon wrapped her arms around Kalina. “You can let go of Spidey now.”
“OK.”
SpiderGirl
then swung around, creating a web bridge for the others to take towards the boat.
It held amongst the trees that stopped swaying as much, despite the high winds.
Another lightning strike hit somewhere out on the lake. “Done,” she said when
she had finished it.
At
the same time, the Enigma and Peterson met near where the vehicles were. “Everyone
has been rescued,” she said.
“That’s
good news.”
“They
should get to the boat shortly and then they’ll head back to Lawndale on the
creek.”
“Then
we’ll meet them somewhere between the two bridges.”
At
the same time, Leung and his team approached the cabin and saw the damage that
the fourth vigilante had done. “We need to act quickly.” He knocked on the door.
“Quentin Beck, come out with your hands up.”
There
was no response.
Leung
lead the team in and saw that the room was empty.
The television
then showed a video. “Agent Leung, I presume. Either that, or it’s Officer
Peterson. Doesn’t matter. What matters is, that I am presently making my escape.
But I will be back in Lawndale in future. As for motive, that’s for you
and the other one to piece together. But the Morgendorffers being ambitious in
their young age is part of it.”
“Making
his escape?” Leung asked himself. But they still needed to search the cabin.
The
Enigma figured that she could walk back to Lawndale, despite the storm. ‘It
will be an opportunity to refine the forcefield. I can catch up with Dafoanairi
later.’
The
others made it to the boat. SpiderGirl hotwired it as they all boarded and then
started it moving.
“You
do know how to pilot a boat, right?” Dafoanairi asked.
“Of
course, how hard can it be, even in this storm?” SpiderGirl responded. The lake
surface was choppy, waves whipped up by the winds. She cleared the dock, and
turned the boat to port, heading westwards towards the creek from Lawndale.
Leung
and his team methodically searched the cabin, but found that Quentin Beck had
made himself scarce.
“He
has gotten away,” one of his colleagues said.
“Unfortunately.
But we’ll have tech’s go over this place with a fine tooth comb.”
“The
fourth vigilante has made herself scarce too.”
“She
didn’t need to stick around. She wasn’t here to take him in, just to be
involved in the rescue operation,” Leung said. ‘No need to jump to accusations,’
he thought.
Words: 615
Total: 1017
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