It was much colder at night than in the daytime. Ava shivered and struggled, but there was no way to work herself free. The belts cut into her ankles and her neck, and the nylon rope squeezed her waist and chest.She had given up crying. There was no one to hear; just four bodies sprawled on the ground. She hoped there was no one to hear.Just before sunrise, she heard something. Not only the sounds there had been all night – the owls that wailed like ghosts and the twigs snapping under the feet of goodness-knows-what. It was closer, repeated. Shuffling, and then a footstep. And another. The soft, muffled sound of footsteps over sand. Ava froze. Not again.‘Alistair? Ruby? Are you OK?’ It was Omar. Ruby groaned.‘I feel awful. What happened?’ asked Ruby. She shook Alistair. ‘Where’s Finn?’‘Still out cold.’ Omar bent over Finn’s slumped shape. ‘Oh God. He’s not breathing!’ His voice rose in panic.‘Does anyone know how to do that thing to start people’s hearts and make them breathe?’ ‘CPR,’ said Alistair.
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