The Sleeping Army Awakes

Part 67 The hills won't like this

Spencer and Eliška were outside the mine when they heard the multiple explosions. The whole hill shook. Elektra and Karlov had followed them. Karlov tried to contact the demolition gang at auntie's house and he had no luck.

"Don't worry Auntie Sacha won't let them die." Eliška said and then considered that the reply was somehow incomplete. "Well not in a conventional sense that is!"

Karlov regarded her quizzically, wondering what she meant. "But not even your Aunt answered the Dudat call."

"Oh Auntie Sacha wouldn't know how to answer it!" Eliška said brightly."In any case I would feel it if there was anything wrong with Auntie."

"I'm more worried she will be flooded out?" Spencer said.

Eliška projected her thought to her Aunt, "Are you alright Aunt Sacha?" she asked.

"Why of course dear." Came the reply, "Mustn't grumble you know. Me and four or five nice but sleepy hunks are just floating around in nice wooden house that they brought. It makes rather good boat you know. They drank rather lot of cider for first time. Downright greedy I think, Still mustn't grumble. I'll give them medicine in minute."

"Yes Auntie is alright." Eliška said. "They are just floating down the lake in little wooden house. That's all! Nothing to worry about."

"That doesn't sound at all healthy to me." Spencer said.

"And my men?" Karlov asked.

"Auntie Sacha will give them medicine," Eliška said with a sweet smile, "and they will eventually be better!"

Spencer contacted Boris in the helicopter

"Can you pick us up?" He asked.

"I'm just dropping Sir Percy and the most of the guards off at the hotel," Boris said, "But I'll come back to the mine in fifteen or twenty minutes."

"Oh no!" Eliška said, "My crazy half cousins have done something really stupid. They have dived rather than leave their submarine when they were right by shore."

"What do you mean by half cousins?" Spencer asked.

"Well they're not really full size for one thing, you know they are rather small for their age!" Eliška said, "and for another they're adopted."

"I am perhaps better informed.. but I am none wiser." Spencer said, "But more to the point what can I do to save them from their fate?"

Eliška related the whole story of how her half cousins had constructed a submarine, looking like a large angry carp and had taken it down to frighten Sir Percy.

"And to summarise... they need some logistic support?" Spencer queried.

"No! They need to be rescued very soon!" Eliška exclaimed.

"I think that I can help." Samuel said. "Show me where they are."

"I've run out of psychic energy." Eliška complained. "It's been difficult day!"

"But I haven't run out of psychic energy." Samuel asserted. He put his left hand on Eliška's forehead. He saw what the problem was immediately "Oh that's not so difficult to sort out with the help of the Sleeping Army" he said, "They just need to be not in the submarine at the moment."

"Well yes... but..." Eliška said. Suddenly there were two rather small teenage boys pedalling like fury in mid air, before her very eyes. "Are they really here?"

"Well in a manner yes," Samuel admitted, "and in another more important way no!"

"In which way yes?" Eliška asked. "and in which way no?"