The Ruby Redfort Collection: 4-6: Feed the Fear; Pick Your Poison; Blink and You Die. Lauren Child

Чтение книги онлайн.

СКАЧАТЬ understood why Hitch had wanted her to learn the principles, because it was all about dealing with obstacles in the most efficient way possible, never taking unnecessary risks. She found, training with him, that she could drop great distances – further than she would have thought possible – by perfecting a move called a “roll”, turning downward force into forward momentum. She learned the importance of building strength and working towards the more challenging jumps, drops and vaults. Without training and proper preparation you could injure yourself badly, possibly permanently, and for Ruby that would mean kissing goodbye to her dream of making it as a field agent. She listened to everything Hitch told her; she did not want to blow this chance.

      Soon she was leaping from building to building, rolling when landing, running up walls and swinging herself round stairwells, using her agility and momentum to traverse the city. Her vocabulary now included wall runs, swinging lachés, feet first underbars, monkey vaults and tic-tacs.

      The more she focused on keeping herself in the moment, the more she began to tune into the rhythm of the city, to see the buildings and parks as spaces she could interact with. No longer were the buildings separate from her, they were her domain, an urban landscape she was now connected to. The amazing thing was that the more Ruby practised parkour, the clearer things became. The fragments were coming together; she was beginning to see things as a whole again.

      It was when she jumped from the Beyer Building, landing neatly on one of its several flagpoles, allowing herself to drop from it and catch the flagpole directly below, spinning herself around it like a gymnast might, using the momentum to somersault herself down and land gracefully on the sidewalk, that she looked up and saw it.

      It was an old faded sign on the side of a building, a ghost sign, with an address and a phone number at the bottom. But it wasn’t those that caught Ruby’s eye, it was the letters above. They spelled out:

      Suddenly, Ruby had an idea about the numbers she’d given to Hitch, the numbers from the cards.

      The poetry book was the key to it all.

Chapter 42.

      RUBY ARRIVED AT SPECTRUM, her mind free of the fog it had been clouded in. She grabbed a drink from the canteen and made her way to her desk. She took out the four sets of numbers and the book of poems and then she began to work.

      She looked again at all four cards, the numbers of each clear to her.

       3 14 1 10 14 8 15 14 13 17 14 15

      And now she thought the meaning was clear too.

      The paperweight, the shoes, the book of poems, the tie-clip. Of these the poetry book had been the most mysterious item. It was a book written to hold secrets; the poet had designed it that way – there was the missing poem 14 for one thing, or rather the hidden poem, which Ruby had found as soon as she’d figured out that the title gave the clue.

      Конец ознакомительного фрагмента.

      Текст предоставлен ООО «ЛитРес».

      Прочитайте эту книгу целиком, купив полную легальную версию на ЛитРес.

      Безопасно оплатить книгу можно банковской картой Visa, MasterCard, Maestro, со счета мобильного телефона, с платежного терминала, в салоне МТС или Связной, через PayPal, WebMoney, Яндекс.Деньги, QIWI Кошелек, бонусными картами или другим удобным Вам способом.

/9j/4SAgRXhpZgAASUkqAAgAAAAMAAABAwABAAAA3AUAAAEBAwABAAAAyQgAAAIBAwADAAAAngAA AAYBAwABAAAAAgAAABIBAwABAAAAAQAAABUBAwABAAAAAwAAABoBBQABAAAApAAAABsBBQABAAAA rAAAACgBAwABAAAAAgAAADEBAgAgAAAAtAAAADIBAgAUAAAA1AAAAGmHBAABAAAA6AAAACABAAAI AAgACACA/AoAECcAAID8CgAQJwAAQWRvYmUgUGhvdG9zaG9wIENTNiAoTWFjaW50b3NoKQAyMDE3 OjAzOjE0IDA1OjU4OjE1AAQAAJAHAAQAAAAwMjIxAaADAAEAAAABAAAAAqAEAAEAAADcBQAAA6AE AAEAAADJCAAAAAAAAAAABgADAQMAAQAAAAYAAAAaAQUAAQAAAG4BAAAbAQUAAQAAAHYBAAAoAQMA AQAAAAIAAAABAgQAAQAAAH4BAAACAgQAAQAAAJoeAAAAAAAASAAAAAEAAABIAAAAAQAAAP/Y/+0A DEFkb2JlX0NNAAH/7gAOQWRvYmUAZIAAAAAB/9sAhAAMCAgICQgMCQkMEQsKCxEVDwwMDxUYExMV ExMYEQwMDAwMDBEMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMAQ0LCw0ODRAODhAUDg4OFBQO Dg4OFBEMDAwMDBERDAwMDAwMEQwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAz/wAARCACgAGsD ASIAAhEBAxEB/90ABAAH/8QBPwAAAQUBAQEBAQEAAAAAAAAAAwABAgQFBgcICQoLAQABBQEBAQEB AQAAAAAAAAABAAIDBAUGBwgJCgsQAAEEAQMCBAIFBwYIBQMMMwEAAhEDBCESMQVBUWETInGBMgYU kaGxQiMkFVLBYjM0coLRQwclklPw4fFjczUWorKDJkSTVGRFwqN0NhfSVeJl8rOEw9N14/NGJ5Sk hbSVxNTk9KW1xdXl9VZmdoaWprbG1ub2N0dXZ3eHl6e3x9fn9xEAAgIBAgQEAwQFBgcHBgU1AQAC EQMhMRIEQVFhcSITBTKBkRShsUIjwVLR8DMkYuFygpJDUxVjczTxJQYWorKDByY1wtJEk1SjF2RF VTZ0ZeLys4TD03Xj80aUpIW0lcTU5PSltcXV5fVWZnaGlqa2xtbm9ic3R1dnd4eXp7fH/9oADAMB AAIRAxEAPwD0jRKElz/1vqqdTjv2zkOfsYZP0YJc3b9H6exZnK4BnzwwmRhxkjirjrTi+Xignms5 wYZ5RET4NeEngv68M3oEjAEmAPEoOJh4+FQ3Hx27a2yeSSSfpOJP7yzPrEX5FRwajG2p+Xf/AFKh +iZ/127/AM9oYcIy5xjjMiBP85IVWMfpyhxf8zjVmzHFhOSUbmB/NxO8z+jx/wDdcLsiCJEEeKWn ksboRov+r/pXDdUwW12iSPbJsiW/yHqp9Vem4t+Ldk3M3ve51HJEMLW+pG2Pp+op5cnGEeZlPJIf dsntaQ4vd4jKMJfzkeH5GCPOymeXEMcT94gcms+H2+EDij8kuL5npNPJKPguY6X0/Cd0TOyn1TvF uwyQfTriypvP+lrVSjC6WOg2ZWQ5ozHF3ow/3aEMYz0t3l7vZ9BTD4bjMpx96foyx5fTDxXOf/Vv 0PVxsR+JZAIH2YevFLPrl4fRD/qX6X6L2RgcwPimlviPvCw31Pd9VT+0WudYxjnsDyQ4GS3HL/6u 785UOn9P6blYddDKW359tN1j3iwj0y07ccOY07PfvZ9NMhyEDDJOWWVY8ssBOOEZw9EeP3eOWXF6 OGK+fPzE4RjijeTFHMBOcoT9R4fb4I48nrer3MgHc2DwZGqRcwAEkAHgyNVgdW6Y0dIwMb0x9qa6 uivXQOeN138n3OrVDHNOd0E49jZyMS1jMd2ugve0eO13+Fajj+HQyYxkjmPD7vsz9A9EJyOPFn/n PVCU+D/n/uLcnxGcMhxHEOL2vdh6iOOcY8eTD8nz8L1wLSJEEeI1TwJ/18EPHxqMSluPjt2VMna2 SYk7jq6XfSKJ3/18FQHBxHWXt381evg4t+Di+fh/Q9x0LnwXQ46+W/Rx9uPh+X/Af//Q9IXNfWDP xXdUw6S724lgdkGDAl1biP5W1jPzV0qUrM5TmI4MvuSgclCUYgS9ujOPBxfJk/Rkrm8Es+L24zEL lGRJj7nyS4+H5ofpOK3r2Jf1F1rLXDBxaHOsdDgHPe6tjf0f0nbJ9ntVXHzMXLq6j1C7JtoDnBll bA0j0iDVis99dvvf+k3em9bfUuoVdPxHZNo3QQ1jBoXOP0Wysq3rHXcbDbnZGPQabRDGNLg9pcP0 LrNXe137v/ntXuXAnC8WDg4jDBjM82MSycEveyY4+5h9eScv8p+h+qaOcmE6y5uPhE80xDFOsfuR 9qE5cGX0wh+5/tGl9X8nf0/O6c0E3W1vfS0AmSWem8T+b/g1LpHWsXC6S/GG77Zuf6dQaSXOd7a/ 81aXWurZ/TXU7K6rK7RtJO6fUH0g1od9BB6j1PqmA/Gc/GxzfkNhxbJPqAxsa7du27HVKxxfeLkc EeDm5jLjgM8ImWTloyjk/wAn/N8Pztehy9AZpcfKwOKc/ZkQMfMS/V8Pr/nP3EeY5vSvq3Xg3GMm 9haGgd3OD7gXD2/o22bVl5IoHR8HJxG7L6rHV23NG13qR6zRv/P/AODW/wBT6l1Pp2FRkOrpL3Hb kCXQHH+b9L3D+VvUcy/Ps6G7IysfHe8w99TtxaKolrvpbvX/ALaHLZ5wGOZhGXvczOc5xzRrLknx Ypw9rh/m+Gf+cTzOCE5ZICUh7PLxjGBxG8UIcOSM/c4vn9P7jW691nFv6dbRUdxte1tbhqHBorvs f/J2Od6SqO6ng1YdTsJ729Q+zMxYazaASWOssLyPpe32rZ+r9+TdhB76asfG4x2VSDoXCxzw4u/O QuqdW6piZ9WLTXS9mQWiguLtxJIY7ftc3b73JmGUI5PucMPEcM5ZZcWeEYZDGMYzjk/VTj8kP1mP j/zi/NGcoDm55aGWMcYrDKU8dylwSh+sj+lP9XNh1XquJT1PEx7C5zcV5feQ0mHGvbT/AF/5zc5U LsF+P9Z66WSKr7W3gDggH1nD+xbW9atHVs2nqLOndSqrY64TTbSSWHnQh/u923atVQfeZcoIQGP5 8EsfF7gyY8vuSlOPMQ4Yen28vuehmHLR5oykcnyZhPh4PbyYuAcMsMvX6uPHw+pSXf8A18Eku/8A r4LNHXydR//R9ISSSWI2HnvrdLjg0zDLHvn4/o2T/wBNy1+o3YdTKq8qv1m3Wsqrr2h3vP0DtcR9 BQ6t0ujqWOGWu9J1ZLmWiDt0926fzFn47OnU5LMnO6q3OspEUAkbWyIL9rHW73/yloxy4J8ty8ZT MZ8t7t44iXHkl СКАЧАТЬ