Far, far away, beyond
where the lines seem to join and disappear they see a flickering light.
'My special trapeze,' Chug says softly, 'is hitched to a star.' Raising his
voice, he shouts, 'Are you ready?'
'We ar-r-e ready!'
Chug unties the trapeze from the platform. He grasps the trapeze bar in
the middle; Stobey takes a firm grip of the bar on his right and Slutter
does the same on his left.
'Don't let go,' Chug shouts and with a powerful shove they swing out and
away from the mountaintop. The trapeze gathers speed. Down below,
the ground rushes past, much too fast to see the people that they know
are watching them.
'Now! See me hang by my feet', Chug calls out.
He flips through a somersault and catches the trapeze bar with his long
spaghetti-thin toes. Stobey decides to try. She takes a deep breath,
twists, and in an instant she is somersaulting. Completing the twist, her
feet reach for the trapeze bar.
The bar isn't there!
Stobey's heart almost stops. She feels herself falling. Out of nowhere, a
hand grasps one of her ankles and she feels herself drawn in.
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