But thick fog and troop movements, coupled with a forced stop during an air raid, delayed them and it took all night to reach Barkingside. They had been given three days’ leave before reporting to the base, which May largely spent keeping an eye on her mother and sleeping. Their orders were to assemble at Liverpool Street Station and she’d arranged to travel there with Emmy. The meeting with their battery at Liverpool Street was like a sort of homecoming. It was comforting to know they’d all be going into the unknown together. Bee was there and Ruby, but Mac would be coming down from Scotland, so it wasn’t until they arrived at the gun site in Barkingside that they were all reunited and had the chance to properly swap leave stories. As they drove into the camp in the back of a lorry, May pulled aside the canvas and peered across a field to the command centre, where the massive bulks and long snouts of the ack-ack guns circled like long-trunked elephants. But May knew, once those snouts were lifted skyward, they’d become more like fire-breathing dragons.
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