I swore myself I wouldn’t eff-up any more. For the mome, Fly respected me, and Arlene too. I didn’t care so much about Albert, but he was all right for one of the LDs. Now was my chance to prove to everyone! Maybe I almost wrecked the truck when those missiles went through, and maybe they don’t know how close they came to being hosed. But if I pulled this off, I’d make up for everything! Plus I’d pay back one of those crawly bastards for what they did to my mom. And Dad. He was right, the slot was a tight fit, even for me; but I could wiggle through. I don’t know what they would have done without me for this. As I slid along, I got grease on me. Gagged me out at first, but then I was glad, cuz it made me more slippery. Huh, like to see one of those wimp LD girls do this! She’d faint, and the human race would lose the war. Suddenly, I saw a thin, silver thing sticking over the edge. Got wide on the end. I didn’t recognize it at first, seeing it so close up. Then I gasped—it was a spidermind foot!
