![]() ![]() A breathing mask, which snapped on just below the brass goggles Archie wore, brought fresh oxygen to him from the tank on his back. Twenty thousand feet in the air.Īs he hung from his safety line for what had to be the thousandth time in the last three days, all Archie could think was that Philomena Moffett had not been entirely honest with them.Īrchie sighed, his warm breath filling the mask that fit over his leather helmet. Even though it was hidden at the heart of a Septemberist puzzle trap. That's what the head of the Septemberist Society had called retrieving this lantern thing. The first of a new League of Seven."Įasy. "Retrieving the Dragon Lantern will be easy for three Leaguers," Philomena Moffett had told him and his friends Hachi and Fergus. ![]() At that moment, he didn't feel scared, or dizzy, or angry. ![]() Archie Dent dangled from a rope twenty thousand feet in the air, watching the blue ribbon of the Mississippi River spin far, far below him. ![]()
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