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“There,” Remi said

To the southwest a narroall of purplish black clouds were rolling over the peaks of the mountains As Sam and Remi watched, the front seemed to roll like a slow-motion wave down the slopes toward the fjord

Visitors beganStaff ently encouraging stragglers and helping parents round up children

“I don’t know about you,” Sam said, “but I’m not keen on—”

“Me neither We’re staying Need to find a place to hide”

“Come on”

With Remi close on his heels, Sam headed for the shore, some fifty yards ahere a path led left, toward the forest, and right, toward the docks They turned left and started trotting, passing a dozen or so visitors headed in the other direction One of thereen lederhosen, called out to them in German

“You’re going the wrong way! The docks are this way”

“Dropped ht back”

A minute later they were inside the tree line The path curved left, toward the outbuildings, but they kept going straight, ducking under the handrail and into the underbrush After a hundred feet they stopped and crouched down beneath the boughs of a pine tree Above, leaden clouds began rolling over the peninsula, blocking out the sun

For the next twenty h the trees as visitors hurried down paths and across lawns toward the docks A few li up the fjord, passing twotheir way through serrated whitecaps

Slowly the cacophony of voices died away, leaving only the hi

stling through the trees and snow-muffled shouts of “all aboard!” fro the evacuation notice every thirty seconds, stopped broadcasting

“Getting colder,” Re herself

Sauidebook’s advice, pulled their Wind-breakers and knit caps from his backpack Remi donned the clothes and pulled her hands into her sweatshirt’s sleeves