Chapter 26 is here! :D
Chapter 26
Location: Attleboro, Boston, USA
Having a master spy mom has its advantages, but it doesn't mean that it comes with no dark side.
For example, if she is a nail-polish maniac, it can happen that you find yourself sitting on a bench with an impatient Cobra and a bookworm, waiting outside for her to choose some new coloured products from the shop.
Nikolai growled. There was a huge city to discover and he was just wasting his time there.
" I cannot imagne what takes so long!" Ian said.
It was strange for Amy to hear the boy speak this way. Before the past was changed, he had been the one who could stand for hours in front of two ties to buy one.
" It depends on the number of the shades." Niko said. He looked extremely bored. " Once, she could get ready in two hours time." Amy checked her watch. If Irina stays there for so much time, they've got 15 minutes more to wait.
" Her other record is five hours." Nikolai continued, making his audience's face turn white.
Then, the door of the shop opened.
The three children moved as one person. They all stood up and approached it.
Unfortunatelly, it was only good to make them disappointed. It wasn't Irina coming out, just another woman in elegant designer clothes.
" Don't worry, she is coming." She smiled at the children with fake symphaty.
Melinda Toth.
Amy couldn't help staring at her.
" What is she doing here?" She asked herself.
The girl was getting ready for the possible attack, but the woman just walked away.
Toth was right, anyway: a minute later, Irina appeared with an infuriated look on her face.
She was muttering something from anger, something that rather sounded like " Americans!".
" Mother, what's wrong?" Nikolai asked.
He had known her long enough to realise that in such situations, there were two choices: he could either stay quiet and face his grumpy mum the whole day or ask about the problem and survive the conversaton at once.
So that time, he picked the second option, but to his surprise, Irina told him nearly nothing.
" These idiots ran out of dark blue nail-polish!" She sighed. " I guess, I'm getting homesick."
Suddenly, the gaze of Amy and Ian met. Although the boy wasn't totaly his initial self, the old, cunning Kabra hadn't disappeared. And at that moment, he was undoubtedly thinking about the same the things.
-It was strange that the woman got mad because of a missing colour.
-Then, Irina Spasky and Melinda Toth meeting? What a coincidence!
-And at last: Why did the ex-KGB agent put the needles on her manicure?
" They must have had a meeting." Amy supposed. A bad feeling – similar to terror – started crawling under her skin, filling her soul with desperation. " What did Melinda tell her?"
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Location: Classified
Sinead had terrible working hours. She started at 6:00 am and finished at 7 o'clock, in the evening.
After she finished, she sat in her room and started to wonder about the events of the day.
She was still trying to discover the negative effects of time travel, but secretly, she began another research. She wanted to know the reason for her being able to remember everything, while the others knew nothing about the initial past.
Although newer and newer results came to the surface, she wasn't sure of herself. According to some of the sources, the Fuegpiedra had some kind of action-radius, but this contradicted the laws of physics and the human logic. However, at that point, Sinead'd lived through that many things described as irrational, that she didn't care.
So her theory was that the stone was used while she was sitting on a plane, which was so high, that it came out of the influence of the gem.
But this thought conducted to more and more problems.
" Amy, Ham, Jonah were flying the same time I did." She thought." If my conclusions are right, they are in deadly danger."
It was like that all her weariness evaporated, letting place to determination and bravery.
With her friends in danger, it came pointless for her to stay a second more in that madness.
She stood up and opened the door of her room.
" Don't worry guys, " she said with shiny eyes " I'm coming!"
Oh yes, Sinead is back to action! :)
But she won't go alone... Um, anyway, did this sentence sound like a spoiler to you? Not really? Well, it was one anyway...
So, any guesses about her company? o.o