Liberating Army Surplus, 3

[singindemonhq]

There had seemed to be quite a gap between the furthest huts and the rear perimeter fence, when I'd got a look at the whole layout of the camp, before Samantha and Percy had first crawled through the tunnel under the fence.




We'd cut our own exit through the wire fence, near the parade ground. But that was on a different side of the square to the big, clearly locked and defended main entrance. I was headed into the part that would be the rear of the camp when seen from the front gates. I was pretty sure that if they'd stored drums of gasoline on site they'd be as far away from the buildings as possible.

The area behind the huts was a lot bigger than I'd thought, and I'd found drums of something, stacked until they were piled higher than the fence itself. The trouble was, they were huge. There was no way that I could see that we were going to be able to take anything off that pile.

If it was gas there had to be a way that the soldier-boys had pumped it out, and probably some more accessible containers, somewhere. I started to hunt around for them and found several objects that were shrouded by tarpaulins. Two indentical shapes had covers with a kind of easy-release rig. I fiddled around for a moment and released one of the catches.

The tarpaulin fell away and that was when I saw what it had hidden. She looked neglected, but with a little care - sleek and stunning! I was sure that Percy and Samantha were going to try to talk me out of it - but I wanted to take her with us!