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"Do you knohere they went?" The idea of a second safe co, especially if this one didn’t work out

"They all died," Micah said, a pained expression crossing his face "I tried to tell thee was our numbers and our weapons, but they went anyway I found theot to theo south?" I asked, surprised

"More, like, west," Micah said, shielding his eyes with his hand as he gazed in the direction of the sun "But HARC has ways of tracking and hunting people everywhere"

I sed a bite of oats, a blip of fear running throughoff with Calluet them?" I asked "Weren’t they armed?"

"Barely Our weapons are reservation weapons I wasn’t handing the us They took what they had, but it wasn’t enough From the looks of it, HARC sent in a lot of officers More than they could fight off"

It seeh weapons to spare I wondered if everyone at the reservation was okay with hi Reboots aere barely armed to defend themselves "How many people are here now?" I asked

"A little over a hundred Maybe a hundred and fifteen We were a hundred and twenty-seven yesterday before you guys got here, but I’ for an accurate count of howhis throat "You done? I’ll take you on that tour"

I wanted to ask why exactly all those Reboots had left, but the way Micah had said they didn’t like the way he was running things et a full answer Maybe that was a better question for Riley, or one of the other Reboots here

We dropped our bowls off to be washed and I followed hih the reservation He pointed out areas where they made clothes and other necessities, like soap and furniture They used one tent for school, and he said soain He was probably right I’d ed to hold on to a lot of e of twelve Maybe a trip to that tent would be a good idea for e of their expansive crops They grew oats and wheat and beans, ae barn was one of the only permanent structures on the compound, and it was full of livestock

I had to hand it to Micah This place was organized and thriving under his co that if HARC let him into the cities he would clean them up in less than a anized

"Is there going to be enough food to feed everyone with a hundred extra people?" I asked as we started walking back toward the reservation "I don’t know a lot about growing, but you already harvested everything froht, but we’ll be okay We’ve got so on a plan to make sure everyone is taken care of Plus ere still producing enough for the Reboots who left"

He looked sad every time he talked about thee a care of soto kill the team should have been back by now," Micah murmured as he stared at the sky "They were scheduled to return this "

"Are they usually back on tioes You know him He doesn’t deviate from the plan"

That was true He’d been an even stricter trainer than I was He probably would have let Officer Mayer kill Calluo look for the," he said "They went pretty far, about a hundred and thirtyin a shuttle"