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Monday 14 December 2009: Hot tea and cold days - and the trouble with plots

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In fact, Jessie was not even off the train. For one brief moment before jumping she had remembered her camera. Quickly she pulled it from her neck, and yanking of her pack she placed the camera inside its solid case. It was only as she was putting her backpack back on that it caught on the railing, and for a moment she could not yank it free. It was as she was fighting the strap that she happened to look in the window, and saw Jefferson was heading toward the door. Jessie was not about to wait around to say hi. Placing Archie on her shoulders, and hoping he would jump off when she hit the ground, Jessie gave one final yank on her pack. The strap broke, and Jessie flung herself over the railing. The ground rushed up to meet her, just as the door burst open and a gun shot sounded behind her. However, the bullet missed her, and she smashed into the ground. She rolled a few feet, cutting her legs and arms on rocks, but not caring because Archie jumped from her shoulders and landed safely. Jessie's jump may have ended without any further scraps, had she not smacked her head against a rock. From one moment stars and colors flashed before her eyes, as a sharp pain coursed through her body; then everything went black. (Hazard on the High Seas, Book Five in the Marshall Family Adventures)

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