When the tender pulled up on the shore, one man helped Mila off and then supported her as she limped towards the medical centre which had a line of people out the door.
At least they were getting her help.
As he watched, the well-dressed man with Mila walked to the head of the queue and inside and the rest of them followed.Definitely Agus.
Four men against him and Mila.He had to wait until they were out of the village, away from the Indonesian military who were handing out supplies to people.
Any gunshot would attract their attention and bring them running.
Less than half an hour later, Mila walked out of the medical centre with her ankle strapped and a pair of crutches under her arms.
She wore sandals.
From the medical centre they moved over to another black four-wheel drive and got in.Agus went over to the military men as they were packing up and shook a man’s hand.
Perhaps Mila had been right not to go to them for help.
As Dobby suspected, they drove up to the clifftop house, but he couldn’t see anything else from here.
He shifted back and considered his options, while the military helicopter took off.
With Mila unable to run, he needed transport.He didn’t have Axle’s car key decoder and Agus probably wouldn’t leave his car out like he had before.
A moped was too slow, but if one of the dirt bikes was there, it might come in handy.
Though he still needed to get from a road to the zod.
He eyed the cliffs.
They’d brought equipment for scaling the cliff in case it was needed and he had the extra harness in his pack which they would have used with Vance.
If he could get the boat to the bottom of the cliff, find somewhere safe to tie it, scale the cliff, find Mila and abseil back down, all without being spotted in the bright light of the day, they had a chance.
He shook his head.That was a lot of ifs.
The zod’s engine would attract attention and there were too many boats in the waters for him to escape notice.
Taking the zod the long way around the island would waste fuel he might need, and he still might run into one of Agus’s men.
What had Mila told Agus?Did he know Dobby was still on the island?
No.His gut told him she’d have made some kind of excuse, which meant Agus wouldn’t be expecting an immediate rescue.
That could work to his advantage.
He moved back into the jungle, making his way around the village towards Agus’s house.He needed to get eyes on Mila and search for other transport options.On his way there, he made sure he had more jerky for the dogs.
He made his way up the hill, spotting a few cut vines and debris being shifted to form a path where his team must have come through.The jungle grew to the edge of the cliff top, which was a huge flat rocky area.He stood behind a tree on the edge and scanned the house from bottom to top.
The man who had helped Mila into the clinic was in the ground floor office and the two other men who’d been with the group were patrolling the grounds, each with a dog.In this light he saw how skinny both animals were.
Shame he couldn’t rescue them as well.
On the second floor he spotted children playing in a room and on the third floor Agus appeared at a window and looked down at the garden.
Dobby shifted further behind the tree so he wasn’t seen.Was Mila in the room with him?
Agus moved away from the window and Dobby couldn’t see anyone else in the room, but he had a shitty angle on it.
