Shelby and Shauna Kitt and the Dimensional Holes. P. H. C. Marchesi

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СКАЧАТЬ believe it: Loola’s usually confident expression was horror-stricken.

      “But it’s in a glass case,” protested Shauna. “It can’t even get close to you!”

      “It’s too close already!” said Loola. “No, no, and no.”

      “Please, Loola!” cried Shauna. “It’s gonna die if we leave it in here! Don’t you think that’s awful?”

      Loola looked at Shauna for a moment, and then dramatically rolled her eyes.

      “Ok, fine,” she said. “But only if we can meet up later and do something really fun.”

      “Deal!” cried Shelby. “When?”

      “I’ll call you,” said Loola, giving him a brief but irresistible smile.

      “How are you gonna call me, though?” asked Shelby. “I don’t have a phone!”

      Loola, however, had already transformed herself into her water drop shape. She floated past the different glass containers, and each disappeared behind her emerald trail. When they were all gone, the emerald trail headed towards the window, getting smaller and smaller, until it floated right through the metal screen.

      “I wish I could shrink like that,” said Shauna, admiringly.

      “I wonder if she’s really gonna call,” said Shelby, sadly. “Do you think she even gets what a phone actually is?”

      Shelby looked so worried about the possibility of Loola not calling that Shauna might have laughed, had she not heard footsteps by the door.

      “There’s someone out there!” she gasped.

      The door opened before they could do anything, and Marina walked in.

      “You should see the look on your faces!” she said, with a chuckle. “I wish I had a camera!”

      “How did you know we were here?” asked Shauna.

      “Lendox asked me to keep an eye on you,” she said. “What are you doing here, anyway?”

      “You gotta see this,” Shelby said, grabbing her hand and pulling her to Dale’s computer.

      “Look at these folders here!” he cried, pointing to the folder entitled “Klodian stuff.”

      Marina frowned, and touched the keyboard before Shelby could warn her. She jumped back, shaking her hand and wincing at the shock she had received.

      “Sorry,” said Shelby. “I meant to tell you – my hand got fried too.”

      “What kind of sick person would come up with that idea?” she cried.

      “Can you figure out how to get through?” asked Shauna.

      “Probably, but not right now. We need to get out of here before Dale gets back, and that’s going to be any second now.”

      Shelby and Shauna had no choice but to leave with Marina, and hurry back towards the dining room’s double-door. As Shauna went in, she nearly ran into Dale as he walked out.

      “Sorry!” she said, her cheeks flushing miserably.

      “You didn’t go on a virtual tour?” he asked, his watery eyes fixed on her.

      “No. Actually, we were…”

      Shauna’s voice trailed off as her mind went blank. Under Dale’s unwavering stare, she couldn’t think of a single way to finish her sentence convincingly.

      “We were looking for Tippy,” intervened Marina, to Shauna’s great relief. “Have you seen her?”

      Dale shook his head, looked at Shauna again for a moment, and then walked away.

      “Well, Shauna,” said Marina, with a teasing smile, “I think you got yourself an admirer.”

      “Or a stalker,” said Shelby.

      Shauna, thinking that either option was pretty awful, smirked at her brother and went into the dining hall. Everyone except for Lendox was standing absolutely still, with their petrified hands clutching the surprix tickets.

      “They are all on virtual tours,” said Lendox, eating a plate of macaroni and cheese with enthusiasm.

      “Can they hear us?” asked Marina, glancing at general Falconbridge, whose forehead looked as if it had been petrified in the middle of an unpleasant thought.

      “No,” said Lendox. “Not at all.”

      “In that case, I have something to say,” said Marina, smiling mischievously as she placed herself in front of the general. “Stephen Falconbridge is a moron!”

      “And his son’s a whacko!” added Shelby. “You won’t believe what we found in his room, Lendox.”

      The vice consul’s smile faded as Shelby told him about the forbidden folders on Dale’s computer.

      “He’s definitely hiding something, Lendox,” Marina added. “No one would rig their computer like that otherwise.”

      “You have to go back there and see,” urged Shelby.

      “I cannot go into someone’s room without permission,” said Lendox, simply.

      “Why not?” asked Shelby.

      “It would be rude,” replied Lendox, as if this were the most obvious thing in the whole world.

      Shelby, Shauna, and Marina stared at the mirian vice consul. How could he think about politeness at a time like this?

      “Do not worry,” he said, amused at their expression. “We will find out what Dale Falconbridge is hiding. In the meantime, perhaps Shauna and Shelby can stay out of trouble.”

      Shelby and Shauna glanced at each other, nervously. Too late for that.

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