Darryl had already been up for hours. (If he told his friends back home, they’d never believe him.) He’d woken when it was still half-dark and lay there. A bird called, then was silent again. The sea hardly made a sound. He turned over, but he couldn’t go back to sleep. The flight back to Tahiti, then the other flight home: this time tomorrow, they’d almost be landing in Auckland. Maybe there’d be a letter from his father. Maybe his dad would say— No, he mustn’t start getting his hopes up too much. Anyway, first there was today’s nuclear test. At midday, his mum had heard, hundreds of kilometres away from where they’d be flying, but perhaps they’d still see something. The flash, or the mushroom cloud on the horizon. That would be incredible. But for once the thought of the bomb test made him feel a bit uneasy, too. He pushed the thought to one side. The light through the shutters was turning orange. Darryl slipped from bed, pulled on a T-shirt and a pair of shorts, and padded outside.
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