“Is that all that’s broken?”Axle asked.
“Yeah.”
“We need to get him on the door.”Dobby collected some large palm leaves to work as a sheet to help drag Hawk.
Axle looked up.“Let me get a splint around him first.”He swung his pack off his back and reached into it, pulling out something he unwound and then slid under Hawk’s knees and pulled up towards his hips.
Hawk stuffed something back in his mouth and bellowed around it as Axle tightened the splint in place.“Sorry.Let’s get him out of here.”
The car engine still purred nearby and Mila hurried to open the back doors.
As he and Axle carried Hawk to the road, he heard another sound.A dull roar.
The second wave was coming.
“Go.”Hawk pushed him away.
“No chance.”Dobby cleared their way through the jungle towards the car.Hawk gritted his teeth and moaned.
“We’ve got to move,” Axle shouted.
“Copy.”
As they reached the car doors, Mila ran to the other side so she could push down the back seats.
The roar grew louder.
Dobby placed Hawk’s head and shoulders on the back bumper and then shifted to the side so he and Axle could push him the whole way in.
The wave was rolling towards them, picking up everything in its path.
The door just fit.Dobby slammed the back doors as Axle jumped into the driver’s seat.
Dobby grabbed Mila’s hand and dragged her on top of him as he slid into the passenger side.“Go.”
The door hadn’t even shut as Axle accelerated up the road.
Behind them the wall of debris was moving fast, getting closer.
Dobby’s throat closed over.This was not happening again.
Axle slammed through the gears and squealed up the road into the mountains.
Water sprayed from their wheels.
“Faster,” Dobby barked.
The car lost traction and slid before Axle got control of it again.
Mila flinched and he realised he was squeezing her.He relaxed his hold.“Sorry.”
“I get it,” she whispered.
She must be terrified.She’d already been caught, but instead of fleeing to safety, she’d stayed to save Hawk.
The car surged forward and left the wave behind.It took another thirty seconds before Dobby stopped looking in the side mirror.He exhaled.“Good work.”
“Thanks for coming back,” Hawk murmured.
