Chapter 26
FANG:
Let me tell you, sleeping in a tree was starting to become something I preferred. For one, you can feel when someone is coming up behind you and then you can wake the others within a millisecond and then you all take off. For another, it was more comfortable then sleeping in a normal bed, afraid that your hosts would get nets out and then take you prisoner, but mostly where they'd take you.
I woke up, feeling alert and knowing where I was right away. I looked at the others, making sure they were all right. Gasman, about to fall off his branch, but I knew he wouldn't. Iggy was holding his branch tightly with one hand, his eyelids were not tense, but everything else about him was. Nudge was, well, Nudge, lying back and in deep sleep. Angel, whose head looked like it was in deep concentration, even when asleep. Her head looks like it is in deep thought when trying to listen to too many voices all at the same time.
I didn't know what woke me up, but I looked around the area we were in, not seeing any threat, but with my hearing I could hear somebody close.
"Fang," someone whispered from the ground.
Quick as a cheetah I looked down at the ground to see who it was, and my eyes widened. How had they come this fast, and how did they know where we were?
"Dr.?" I asked. "Jeb?" I said in a harder voice.
I immediately thought of Max, and what she would be doing right now: glaring at Jeb, and then making sure everyone else was all right, and then waking them up.
"Fang, we need to get going. We're going to break Max and Matt out of there," Jeb said.
"Just like old times?" I growled.
He barely smiled. "Just like old times."