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Chapter 7: Family Affairs Nudge POVI was lost. I couldn’t remember whether we had come from the left or the right.Max must have seen the look on my face because she asked, “You do know which way togo don’t you Nudge?”“I know after this it will be the 1
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left, second right, second left, and it will besomewhere down that corridor, but I’m not sure which way now.” I replied, trying tosound confident. “Should we split up?”“I suppose we’ll have to.” Max sighed. “You and Iggy take the left,” she saidlooking at Will. “Me and Nudge will take the right. Remember, 1
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left, second right,second left.”“Righto.” said Will. We started to walk away when I heard Will speak. “Becareful Max.” he said. Max and I both turned around.“I will.” Max replied, sounding confused. “Why? Are you worried about me?”“So what if I am” Will said back smiling. They both looked at each other and thenturned around and walked away. I followed Max. I smiled to myself.“What are you smiling at?” said Max suddenly, looking down at me.“Oh, nothing.” I answered, trying to keep a straight face. Max looked at me, andthen away, smirking to herself.We turned a corner and there, on the left was a room labelled Records. We hadn’tencountered anyone on our way here. Usually there would’ve been the odd eraser  patrolling the corridors, especially after we broke out. There wasn’t even any on the roof.Something was going on and it didn’t seem good.Max walked up to the door and slowly turned the handle. She pushed on the door a bit and it opened. She looked at me, smiled, and the pushed it open all the way. Westepped inside.All there was was a standard PC sitting on a desk, with a lone chair in front of it,on the wall to the right. The rest of the room was bare, painted grey, no windows and asingle bulb hanging in the center of the room. “Hmm?” I pondered sarcastically. “Whereto start?” Max laughed and we headed for the computer which looked fairly outdated.I sat down in the chair and loaded it up. We needed to enter a password, but after afew minutes of hacking we were in. Microsoft hasn’t got nothing on me! We loaded upon to a standard desktop, except it had folder after folder on it, all labelled somethingobscure like ‘4££µ(‘ and ‘ƒ7w’. Inside these folders were more folders, and more insideof those. “Well this is going to take forever.” groaned Max.“Not if I have anything to say about it.” I replied happily. I went into the start bar and opened search. I typed in ‘Avian Human Experiment” And hit return. Instantly a file popped up named ‘hae#1-8’. I opened it and instantly the faces of the flock popped up aswell as Will’s and Emily’s. I double clicked on Emily’s face which sent me to another  page. On it had a lot of information about Emily. Full Name, Place of Birth, then CurrentLocation. Under it was a sentence saying ‘Due to safety reasons Experiment #8 has beentransferred to Facility B in Birmingham, UK.’
 
“I’ll give them a buzz” said Max. She held up the walkie to her mouth, held downthe button and whispered “Hey guys, we found it.” There was a slight pause when Iggy’svoice came through quietly “Ok, we’re on our way.”I had continued looking through the information and then saw something bad.“Oh no!” I gasped and held my hand up to my mouth.“What? What is it?” Max asked. I pointed, hand shaking, at a category namedParents. Underneath it says deceased.“D-Do you think Will knows?” I stuttered.“No, he would have at least mentioned it.” She replied, also putting her hand over her mouth.“Do you thin-“ Suddenly there was a loud bang and we turned our heads round tosee Ari standing in the doorway.“Well, what do we have here?” he started to say “Looks like some birds have been-“ when without warning there was a loud crack and Ari slumped the floor. Welooked down at his unconscious body then back up to see Will standing in the doorway,with a fire extinguisher with a large dent at his feet.Will looked up from Ari to us and laughed “Looks like we came just in time! HeyIggy, it’s safe!” he called. He walked into the room, followed by Iggy and Max nudgedme discreetly. I quickly turned off the screen.“What you got?” asked Will leaning over my shoulder.“Nothing now” I replied quickly, putting my ability to lie on cue to use. “But before it did we found out where your sister is.”“Where?” he asked, looking forcefully in my eyes. He wasn’t smiling anymore;his face had gone hard and stern. Should I tell him about his parents?“Birmingham.” Max said shortly, distracting him from me, as if she could tell Iwas going to tell him. “In the United Kingdom.”“In England?! Well how-“ this time he was cut off by the sound of a voice saying“Intruder Alert! All personnel to Room 108!” Uh oh!“We’ve got to split! And fast!” shouted Max over the repeating voice. She ran outthe room, followed by Will. I grabbed Iggy’s hand and ran out the room with him. Thistime Max knew the way back. We ran down corridors and found the exit we used whenwe escaped quite easily. We ran outside.I counted 10 whitecoats, 20 feet in front of us, blocking us in. But they didn’thave wings. “In the air!” shouted Max. She had already started to unfurl her wings andtake off. Me and Iggy followed suit and took off a good 10 feet before we reached thewhitecoats. Will had a harder time.He had unfurled his wings, and was trying to take off, but still wasn’t that good atit. He got in the air, before he hit into one of the whitecoats and rolled down on to thefloor. The whitecoats converged around him, trapping him. We were 50 feet in the air andlooking down.“What’s going on?” Iggy hissed.“They’ve circle around him, got him trapped.” I said worriedly back.“Will!” Iggy called down. “Do like we practised! You can do it!” What was it they practised? I looked down at Will and saw him crouch down, and then, with all his force, jump up, and start to flap his wings instantly. He caught the wind and started to rise.Whoa! It had taken me months to get that right! He caught up with us and we started to
 
fly away, back towards the forest, somehow knowing no-one would be following us. Notyet at least.Gazzy POV“Have they gone back for Emily?” I asked Fang, watching them fly off. Henodded, and continued to walk past us.“Well what do
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do then?” called Angel after him.“Get firewood, start a fire. I’m going to find us some breakfast.” He shouted back as he walked through the tree line. I looked at him as he walked away, confused.“Well what are we supposed to do if an Eraser attacks” I whispered under my breath.“They’re not going to come.” said Angel, in an everyday sort of tone. “Notanymore.”“What? What do you mean anymore?” I exclaimed, shocked.“Oh nothing, just something I overheard someone thinking.” She continued.“Overheard who?!” I asked hurriedly.“I don’t know, but they had a very low voice.” she said, thinking.” Never mind,shall we get the firewood?” She got up and skipped off into the woods. I watched her go,completely amazed. I got up and chased her.We had collected the firework and started a fire. We were just waiting for Fang tocome back, but he was taking his time. “Do you think we’ll ever find our parents?” Angelsaid suddenly.This completely threw me off guard. “Yeah, I’m sure we will. I mean Iggy foundhis didn’t he, why can’t we find ours?”“I hope we don’t find them.” she said bluntly. She was full of surprises today!“Why not? I asked, confused.“Because the flocks my family.” We were silent after this. The more I thoughtabout it, the more I started to see her way of thinking. We had spent practically our wholelives with the flock. She was right. The flock was our family.Once again, Angel surprised me, this time by making me jump, when she saidhappily, “They’re back!” I looked to my left to see only 4 figures landing. They didn’tfind Emily then.Max came up to us and asked, “Where’s Fang?”“Hunting.” I replied bluntly. “But did you find anything?”“Yeah.” said Will, angrily. “She’s in England!”“England?” I asked. “In Europe?”“Yep!” he said sarcastically. “Great isn’t it!”“Umm, Will.” asked Max as kindly as she could. “Do you mind if we talked in private?” She gestured to the flock as she said it. “You know, family stuff.”“Yeah whatever, I’ve got to think some stuff through anyway.” He got up and walked off.He was angry. Angry that he hadn’t found his sister.“So?” I asked. “Did you find out anything about our parents?”“No, nothing.” Said Iggy quietly. Parents were always a bit of a touchy subjectaround him now. We were silent.
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