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1 Fun with Spontaneous Combustion
CARTER HERE
Look, we don’t have ti introductions I need to tell this story quickly, or we’re all going to die
If you didn’t listen to our first recording, well…pleased toaround loose in the icians called the House of Life is trying to stop the snake is about to s the sun and destroy the world
[Ow! What was that for?]
Sadie just punchedto scare you too
Fine But personally, I think you should be scared
The point of this recording is to let you knohat’s really happening and how things rong You’re going to hear a lot of people talking trash about us, but we didn’t cause those deaths As for the snake, that wasn’t our fault either Well…not exactly All the ether It’s our only chance
So here’s the story Decide for yourself It started e set Brooklyn on fire
The job was supposed to be siyptian artifact, and leave without getting caught
No, it wasn’t robbery We would have returned the artifact eventually But I guess we did look suspicious: four kids in black ninja clothes on the roof of the museum Oh, and a baboon, also dressed like a ninja Definitely suspicious
The first thing we did was send our trainees Jaz and Walt to open the side hile Khufu, Sadie, and I exalass dome in the y
Our exit strategy wasn’t looking too good
It ell after dark, and the loith light Inside, forty feet below, hundreds of people in tuxedos and evening gowns ar An orchestra played, but with the wind howling in , I couldn’t hear the icians are supposed to wear linen because it doesn’t interfere with yptian desert, where it’s hardly ever cold and rainy In Brooklyn, in March--not so much
My sister, Sadie, didn’t see the locks on the do on her iPod I s their own tunes to a museum break-in?
She was dressed in clothes like mine except she wore cohts --very subtle for a stealth ht co like reed was fine It’s always nice to have the option of denying that the crazy girl next to me is my sister
"You said the museum would be empty," I complained
Sadie didn’t hear me until I pulled out her earbuds and repeated myself
"Well, it was supposed to be e in the States for the last threeto lose her British accent "The Web site said it closed at five Hoas I to know there’d be a wedding?"
A wedding? I looked down and saw that Sadie was right Some of the ladies wore peach-colored bridesmaid dresses One of the tables had a uests had lifted the bride and grooh the roo and clapping The whole thing looked like a head-on furniture collision waiting to happen
Khufu tapped on the glass Even in his black clothes, it was hard for hiolden fur, not to mention his rainbow-colored nose and rear end
"Agh!" he grunted
Since he was a baboon, that could’ve lass is dirty to Hey, those people are doing stupid things with chairs
"Khufu’s right," Sadie interpreted "We’ll have a hard tih the party Perhaps if we pretend we’re a maintenance crew--"
"Sure," I said "‘Excuse us Four kids co to float it up through the roof Don’t mind us’"
Sadie rolled her eyes She pulled out her wand--a curved length of ivory carved with pictures of olden hieroglyph blazed, and the last padlock popped open
"Well, if we’re not going to use this as an exit," she said, "why a in--through the side ?"
"I told you The statue is huge It won’t fit through the sidePlus, the traps--"
"Try again toht, then?" she asked