Why is she equipped with a spoon and a cup with a lid and tape?

“My mistake,” she says. “No corpse. It was probably just a trick of light.”

The teachers and supervisors yell and herd us away. As we trudge off the field, lagging behind everyone else, Agnes holds her sample up, squinting.

“Sinkhole. Strange goo. You know what this means, Jake?”

Hum plus thumb tree plus sinkhole.

“Not exactly,” I tell her. Which is the truth.

“Me neither. Want to help me find out?”

Do I want to encourage this person I don’t know to investigate something that, in some way, has everything to do with me?

No.

But do I want to spend time with someone who’s totally into Night Kite, a superhero with scary-good detective skills who suspends bad guys off bridges to get answers from them? And do I want some answers for myself?

“Yeah,” I find myself saying. “Let’s figure this out.”

About the Author

Courtesy Greg van Eekhout

GREG VAN EEKHOUT, author of Voyage of the Dogs, lives in San Diego, California, with his astronomy/physics professor wife and two dogs. He’s worked as an educational software developer, ice-cream scooper, part-time college instructor, and telemarketer. Being a writer is the only job he’s ever actually liked. You can find more about Greg at his website: www.writingandsnacks.com.

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