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Ciao,

Sofia

Tick reread the sentences about thehi dude atching her, chances were he’d be co on Tick and he hadn’t noticed? He felt the faain rea her to be careful and that he’d write her again the second he got back fro off when he heard the chie popped up, Tick felt like an icy fist had smashed his heart into pulp

Fro sour, Tick clicked on the e-mail It only had one line of text

See you in Alaska

Chapter

20

The Land of Ice and Snoo days later, Tick and Edgar sat in their seats on the airplane, thirty-thousand feet in the air, soda and stale pretzelsthem look forward to a e Tick sat by the , his dad’s oversized body wedged into the aisle seat like a Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade balloon stuffed into the back of a pickup truck The steady roar of the plane’s engines made Tick feel like his ears were stuffed with cotton

The two of thee e-ress Tick didn’t knoasout--hiottenday, to the point they illing to ignore an obvious and outright warning like the one received in the e-, and that was final

"We need to keep a sharp lookout," his dad said through asuspicious, yell it out quickly When in doubt, run And we need to stay in public as much as possible"

"Dad, I’d say you sound like a paranoid freak, but I agree one hundred percent" Tick took a sip of his drink "I think I’m half excited and half scared to death"

"Hey, we’re co back now"

"Cheers" They clicked their plastic cups together

In two hours, they’d be in Alaska

Seven rows back, a tall man with black hair and razor-thin eyebrows crouched in his tiny seat as best he could, reading the ridiculous in-flightbut advertisements and stupid articles about places he’d never care to visit This spying business was deathly boring, and he hated it No action, no results, boring, boring, boring