![]() ![]() ![]() I scrambled off Dad’s arm, leg, shoved him to one side with a hard kick. I turned around when a vice grip around my ankle sent me slamming onto the dirt trail once more.ĭad had fallen over the cliff ledge but was hanging onto my foot. I was going to be dragged down with him if he didn’t let me go. “Trevor!” Tania yelled as she grabbed my hands. It was tough feeling my body being pulled in two different directions. I imagined it must have been a zillion times worse for people in the Dark Ages who were tortured to death by having their limbs torn apart one by one. I shook and jerked my foot and squirmed around until I kicked it free. Tania clung to me when I moved us a couple of paces away from the edge of the cliff. “He’s still there,” she whispered, pointing in front of us.ĭad’s grazed fingers were gripping the ledge. The man cursed us for being “ungrateful bastards.” He gritted his teeth as he struggled to gain a foothold in order to pull himself up. We held hands, facing each other as a wide I-Dare-You smile crept over our lips. “Let’s do it.” My dear sister licked some of the blood from the cut on her lower lip.Įach step we took was in sync as we went right up to edge. None of us uttered any last words out loud-Dad’s eyes were open when we took turns prying his hands off the ledge.Ī person was nothing but weakness when they were hanging on to their life’s last moments. “Kids?” Dad was hoping we’d change our minds and help him up at the last second. He was heaving through his lungs as his eyes searched for something in us that might have signaled we had a change of heart. She literally crushed his fingers off the edge.īoth of us were silent as we the tell-tale crumpling “thud” of the body striking the ground below. Tania and I shared a tight hug, reveling in another secret that bound us to each other for life. “Another one bites the dust,” I commented, sneaking a peek over the cliff. ![]() “We should clean ourselves up a little bit.” Tania pointed to the trail in front which led to the stream under the bridge. #ONE CLUE CROSSWORD CHAPTER 26 SKIN#I washed my hands in that cool, clean water, scraping under and around the fingernails just in case there was too much of Dad’s skin cells there from the scuffle we’d had earlier. Was plain water enough to get rid of the traces of DNA? #One clue crossword chapter 26 air ship answer skin “I’ll be the hysterical one,” Tania said. She was totally working her amazingly calm, serious face and demeanor. Anyone would’ve thought she had just finished conducting one of her innocent, insect dissection experiments. “Who’re we going to tell first?” I stood up, shaking the water off my hands. My hands would be dry in about twenty seconds if I repeated that shaking action. Tania stood up, triumphant-the little Amazon princess who’d overthrown one of her chief abusers with the help of her princely twin. “He’ll probably call the police, and we’ll take it from there.” “First, we’ll go to the ranger.” Tania lightly ran a hand along her collarbone, where Dad’s hand had last been before he almost slammed the back of her head into the rock face. “Take it from there?” I was a mix of emotions-the diametric opposite of Tania. ![]() “My heart beats faster when I realize we just did it again. The back of my neck turns icy when I think about having to face the police. “I know, I know,” Tania said, taking my cold hands in hers, which were nice and warm. “Well, I’m going to be crying and you can tell the ranger what happened.” There was an insane amount of unwavering focus in Tania. You can, and should, look guilty-just do it in a believable way.” “We’re going to say Dad tripped at one point, and that we tried to help him but it was too late. Tania made a gesture with her right hand like she was flicking the end of a cigarette. That you’re now the older brother who feels the weight of the world on his shoulders because you feel responsible for the both of us, yadda, yadda, yadda.” “You should appear…guilty that you weren’t able to stop Dad from falling.” She drew inverted commas in the air when she said the last word of that sentence. #One clue crossword chapter 26 air ship answer skin. ![]()
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