I managed to write 619 words yesterday on the train yesterday, in which Campbell takes Zack for a cup of tea in the mess hall before his next lesson is due to start.
Extract:
“His school lets him go out drinking?” Campbell wondered if he had worried excessively over catching the boys in a nightclub.
“They're not supposed to.” Hemmings sipped at his tea, having not touched the chocolate at all. “But some of the parents, they think lads will be lads, and they kicked up a fuss about the amount of detentions their kids were getting. So now the school just lets them away with it. It's a hell of a security risk: I keep telling Rob he shouldn't go with them if he wants to stay safe.”
The boy took after his father; Campbell had to stop himself from smiling at Hemmings' attitude.
“That club the other night: didn't you think that was a security risk?”
“He was with me, wasn't he? I can look after the two of us.” Hemmings fixed Campbell with a steely stare. “You saw that I can.”
And then I wrote 686 today while I was waiting for everyone else in the house to wake up so we could do breakfast and tidying up type things. Zack is starting to follow up on his suspicions.
Extract:
The images were distorted, and the colours seemed all wrong, but Zack recognised the bank machine close to the Base's main gates. It was the one he and Rob used if they needed money for one of their escapades, but didn't want to be traced by their transactions. The date in the corner was yesterday's, and that was Rob walking up to the machine, but where was his backpack? And hadn't he been wearing a different T-shirt under his jacket when Zack last saw him?
“It's fake,” Zack said. “Someone's faked Rob taking the money out yesterday.”
“You can't just fake a vid-record like making a vid-show. Those things are tamper-proof. They have to be, or it wouldn't be possible to use them as evidence in criminal cases.”
“I don't know how they've done it. I don't care how they've done it. That record's been faked, and Rob's in danger.”
There's another clue in that recording, so now I just have to decide how and when Zack works it out.
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I managed to write 619 words yesterday on the train yesterday, in which Campbell takes Zack for a cup of tea in the mess hall before his next lesson is due to start.
Extract:
“His school lets him go out drinking?” Campbell wondered if he had worried excessively over catching the boys in a nightclub.
“They're not supposed to.” Hemmings sipped at his tea, having not touched the chocolate at all. “But some of the parents, they think lads will be lads, and they kicked up a fuss about the amount of detentions their kids were getting. So now the school just lets them away with it. It's a hell of a security risk: I keep telling Rob he shouldn't go with them if he wants to stay safe.”
The boy took after his father; Campbell had to stop himself from smiling at Hemmings' attitude.
“That club the other night: didn't you think that was a security risk?”
“He was with me, wasn't he? I can look after the two of us.” Hemmings fixed Campbell with a steely stare. “You saw that I can.”
And then I wrote 686 today while I was waiting for everyone else in the house to wake up so we could do breakfast and tidying up type things. Zack is starting to follow up on his suspicions.
Extract:
The images were distorted, and the colours seemed all wrong, but Zack recognised the bank machine close to the Base's main gates. It was the one he and Rob used if they needed money for one of their escapades, but didn't want to be traced by their transactions. The date in the corner was yesterday's, and that was Rob walking up to the machine, but where was his backpack? And hadn't he been wearing a different T-shirt under his jacket when Zack last saw him?
“It's fake,” Zack said. “Someone's faked Rob taking the money out yesterday.”
“You can't just fake a vid-record like making a vid-show. Those things are tamper-proof. They have to be, or it wouldn't be possible to use them as evidence in criminal cases.”
“I don't know how they've done it. I don't care how they've done it. That record's been faked, and Rob's in danger.”
There's another clue in that recording, so now I just have to decide how and when Zack works it out.