subject: Encounter The Miracle [print this page] He couldn't bring himself to risk death that way. Exhausted, starved, and thirsty again, he trudged links of london sale hoping to encounter a miracle. And if he didn't, maybe tomorrow, Saturday, traffic would be lighter and he'd be able to cross.
A flash of orange in the distance caught his attention. He froze with recognition. His jumpsuit soccer baU lay at the Links of London sweetie edge of the methan. Still a round orb, but dirty. He couldn't help but think it was an omen- that the police were pursuing him. He retrieved the ball, but couldn't bear the idea of deconstructing it and putting on the Teddy Charm jumpsuit. After dark, he would.
The hated garment of incarceration would provide warmth. Dan was out sick with a strep throat and Philip had been grounded for talking back to his mom, so that left only three members of the The Man On The Moon Charm Screaming Beavers in attendance at the patrol meeting. Still, it was hard for Kiefer Bernhardt, the patrol leader, to deliver the news that his dad had been suddenly called away for an emergency meeting in Albany and wouldn't be able to take them on their weekend patrol campout. Kiefer held onto a map as one might a security blanket. "What?"
Alex shouted, the noise reverberating off the basement walls of the ree room. "That stinks!" "But we've already bought our food and packed and everything," Paul said in a pleading voice. "Yeah, I know" Kiefer smoothed out the map on the ping-pong table. "But we can stiU go on a day-long hike tomorrow. " "It's not the same," said Paul. Kiefer pressed on. "My brother's home from college this weekend.
