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dalite.
"Erek said southwest corner, right?" I said.
"Astost8st8west," Cassie said.
She sounded sure, so I decided to agree.
"Yeah, that was it. Which way is northwest?"
Ax laughed in thought-speak, till he realized I
was serious.
directions?> He sounded shocked. Like
he'd just discovered we had hidden tail blades.
there.>
The pipe was about three inches in diameter.
"I hope this works," I said. "I don't even
know if my Spiderman can make silk."
"Spiderwoman," Cassie said. "Your spider
morph is female. Wolf spiders don't make
webs, but they do make silk. It should work."
"Easy for you say. I don't even know how to
turn on the silk thing."
But Ax was already morphing into the wolf spider, so I
hurried to catch up. By the time Ax
and I were in spider morph, the others had all be
come cockroaches.
scale.> Rachel said.
der my own size again.>
you
look like right now? You look like
dinner.> I said, laughing evilly.
is hungry, and you look tasty.>
Jake said patiently.
butt.> Rachel growled.
From where I was standing in the gravel of the rooftop, the
pipe looked like a round skyscraper. It extended
above the roof by about a foot, which is quite a distance when
you're half an inch high.
I scampered around the pipe. One side had been
splashed with tar. It would be easy to grip. I raced
easily up the pipe to stand precariously on the
lip.
I could feel a breeze blowing up from the
blackness beneath me. It was like standing on the edge of the
Grand Canyon. The pipe went down through all
three stories and an extra underground story. Four
floors. Bad enough when you're human size. A
million miles when you're a spider.
Ax came crawling up to teeter alongside me.
I said.
I tried to search the spider brain, looking for the
subtle, secret signals that would start me spinning
silk.
Fortunately, the spider wasn't exactly
Albert Einstein. It only knew how to do about four
things, one of which was spin silk.
The spider body sort of... well ... pushed
out a strand of gooey white filament. It stuck to the
edge of the pipe.
Ax did the same.
disgusting.> I said.
Ax?>
Yeeeeee-Haaaaahhh!>
I sprang from the lip of the pipe into the darkness.
It was so totally Spiderman.
I fell slowly down, down, down, twisting and
turning my way down the pipe. Behind me a long
white string grew. It braked my fall, so that I
was dropping in slow motion. The spider eyes were not
bad at seeing in the relative dark. A bit of
moonlight followed us down part of the way as
we dropped.
And then it started being fun. I kicked away from the
side of the pipe and cartwheeled through the air. My
web looped around Ax's, and soon we were weaving a
weird silk rope.
It was cool in a way . . . till I felt a
certain emptiness.
dropped?>
don't know how far we've dropped? We could still have
two stories to g.> I said.
flaw.> Ax said with his usual understatement.
creatures. We should survive a fall. So should the
others in cockroach morph.>
there's only one way to find out if we'll
survive. By dropping.>
Ax didn't say anything.
I groaned.
I cut the strand of web.
And I fell. Down through the darkness, toward a
landing I could only hope wouldn't kill me.
It was a long drop.
WHAP! WHAP!
We hit something hard. We bounced. We hit
again.
WHAP! WHAP!
Jake called
down.
I said.
and landed on a steel trampoline. Couldn't be
better.>
Rachel commented
coolly.
how much you laugh when it's
your
turn.>
The plan was for Ax and me to create a silk cable the
others in cockroach morph would be able
to climb down. That way, they wouldn't all have to go
spider. Not that it would have helped, anyway.
said.
we'll jump. If you two survived, we will.
Nothing kills a cockroach.>
Marco?> Rachel suggested.
Ax and I scurried out of the way. A few
seconds later, after they had clambered down to the end
of our silk . . .
WHAP! WHAP! WHAP! Three cockroaches
landed nearby.
Jake
asked.
knows?> I answered.
heatingstair-conditioning vent, I guess. Erek said it
would be part of the furnace system. Supposedly we
go west a hundred feet or so, then drop down,
then go across the furnace, then down again, then right.
Then we're at the edge of the High Security
Room, where the real trouble starts.>
say furnace?> Cassie asked.
furnace might actually come on?>
Cassie said.
I said.
Rachel pointed out.
seriously
changed my mind.> I said.
Of course, no one listened to me. We scrabbled
along the steel floor, two spiders and three
cockroaches. Our rough claws seemed to make a
horrible din on the metal, scuffing and scratching.
But it probably wouldn't have sounded like anything to a
human.
As we ran, there was more and more dust on the floor
of the vent. It was weird, like walking through dried
leaves. My eight legs kicked through it, and it
swirled behind me as I passed. Eventually the dust
became as thick as a carpet, although in reality it was
probably no more than a few
millimeters thick.
Every ten feet or so there would be a grilled opening.
Through the massive upright bars I could see offices.
The light in the offices was very dim, just the glow of
computer screen savers and red or green function
lights. But it helped us to find our way through the
darkness of the vent.
Then . . .
yelled. She was the farthest back.
Something big!>
She took off. I took off. We all took
off.
Now I could feel the vibrations, too. Quick,
confused-sounding footsteps. And a dragging sound, like
something was being hauled.
I ran. To my left, another spider. Ax.
Ahead of
me, two roaches, almost as big as I was.
Rachel
was just back to my right.
I couldn't exactly turn and glance over my
shoulder. I had no shoulder. And I had no
actual head to turn. So I paused,
spun around, and in
the dim light from a vent, I saw it. [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]