CHAPTER 10 Mason knew very little about electronics, though he had earned a Boy Scout merit badge in electricity and electronics growing up. He wondered if Ivy would be impressed by that. No one else seemed to care that he was an Eagle Scout, something his mother had pushed him to become. She’d said it would matter one day. He did suppose his swimming skills and emergency preparedness skills had helped him plan for this trip—and now the aftermath of this storm. He pulled on a blue wire, sure it was the one he needed to strip and reconnect to the underside of the radio to get it working again. If he could just get a message out, he was sure someone could come rescue them. He wasn’t sure why he was so desperate for someone to know they needed help, only that he was. It was one thing liv

