Against All Odds (2011)
“Boney gestured for the troop to wait while he left the tracks and crouched in the shade at the foot of the path, looking for clues. The sunlight glinted through the leaves; a light breeze sighed in the tree branches. Boney looked around to be sure the coast was clear, then signalled for the gang to join him.
Squeak crouched beside Boney. “Any evidence of recent activity?” He pulled his telescope from his messenger bag and scanned the woods.
Boney pointed at a clump of bushes. “Some broken branches and about a thousand more footprints since yesterday.”
Sam produced the electro-node-a-metre from her knapsack and held it out in front of her, pressing the silver button. The thin wire arms rose from the sides of the device and began to whirl around, the small glass globes at the ends of the arms firing up and reflecting like Christmas lights in the lenses of Squeak’s goggles. Itchy pulled a gigantic package of licorice from Henry’s sling and stripped a couple of pieces from the pack.
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