Force of Nature ▸ House of Anubis [3]

chapter forty-four. house of cameras

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            Denby didn't come back to class. Patricia did, five minutes after she left. For the rest of the time, Joy sat at the front of the classroom, watching us with hawk-like eyes. It's practically a miracle when the bell rings and we all leave the room as quick as we can. Patricia gathers us together between class and informs us that she saw, through our peephole in the bathroom, Denby taking files from one of Sweet's cabinets. She tells us that she deliberately ran into her and caused her to drop the files and she saw what the files were—student files.

            Specifically, files on the following students: Patricia Williamson, Eddie Miller, Alfie Lewis, Fabian Rutter, KT Rush, and Ashley Adams.

            Eddie and I couldn't find KT's file when we looked; she must've gotten one in the past couple of days. Or maybe Sweet just had it in a locked cabinet to trick us or something. I don't know. But still, Denby took our files. But why? What's in there she doesn't already know? Eddie and my statuses as the Osirian and Bringer of Death respectively aren't in there. There's just normal school stuff in there.

            "Why does she want to secretly read up on us?" Fabian questions. Patricia shrugs.

            "I don't know," KT says from behind us. "We've got to find out."

            "If Frobisher's awake," Eddie states, "it's way too dangerous to keep going to the gatehouse."

            "If this was a movie," Alfie remarks, "we'd send in a surveillance team and bug the place."

            Okay, Alfie needs to continue fake-suggesting things that we agree are actually brilliant because he keeps on saving the day. Fabian puts an arm around him and says, "Alfie, you're a genius."

            We're gonna bug the gatehouse.

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            I don't know how Alfie got his hands on spycams within hours of school ending, nor do I think I want to know, but he did. He also brought back with him a potted plant to test it out in and he set that one up in the kitchen so we can see if it works. He's just come back and we crowd around Eddie's computer, watching the events in the kitchen play out in real time. Trudy's drying dishes as she hums.

            "That's brilliant!" Eddie exclaims.

            "Yeah, way to go, Alfie," I add. "When in doubt, we turn to him from now on."

            Alfie smiles. "We know the cameras work. All we need to do now is plant them in the gatehouse and bingo, we can find out exactly what Denby's up to."

            I nod. "Okay, so how do we plant cameras in the gatehouse if Frobisher's awake and walking around it? Not to mention Denby."

            "We have to make sure she's gone," KT states. "Frobisher's... gonna be tricky, though."