Death Ray
“No such luck. It was a German patrol, at least half a dozen men, methodically searching the bushes, moving slowly towards us, leaving no stone unturned. There was nothing for it. We rolled over and crawled into the undergrowth, scrambled on all fours through prickly brambles that clung and clawed at our clothes, and only rose to our feet when we could see the pale glow of moonlight beyond the trees. ‘Christ, Finn, I can’t see any cover for miles. It’s all open fields. We’ll be sitting ducks if ...they hear us. There’s nowhere to hide.’ It wasn’t all bad news, I thought. When studying the maps I hadn’t really taken in just what exactly all those tiny contour lines meant. The full moon’s glow enabled me to see that we were in the middle of a broad, flat-bottomed river valley. I had little doubt that the fields were dangerous to cross, but guessed that beyond them, where the land rose up to form gentle hills, there’d be some sort of cover. ‘We’ll be OK as long as we wait until the moon goes behind that cloud,’ I whispered.MoreLess
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