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Two hurunt I crawled for her, but humans had me by the ar rip

Defeat began to creep in as I watched two officers haul Addie to her feet

"Radio in that we got One-seventy-eight," one of the officers said

They didn’t mention Addie Of course they didn’t I was the one they wanted And they wanted iven the fact that I still didn’t have a bullet in the brain

My eyes met Addie’s I looked over her shoulder, at the e the officers for leverage, I lifted round and slammed them into Addie’s chest She yelped as she flew backward

One officer let her go, but the other dove for her ar as he started to fall down the incline He quickly dropped her, scrarabbed his jacket and yanked him back

Addie disappeared over the side

TWENTY-THREE

CALLUM

"ALL HUMANS EVACUATE IMMEDIATELY PLEASE HEAD TO THE nearest HARC gate and exit now A shuttle will be there shortly I repeat All humans--"

"Yeah, yeah," Isaac muttered as the announcement blasted froet it"

"I could shoot out the speakers in all the towers," Beth said, shotgun swung over her shoulder

I shookdirt off my pants as I stood "Don’t Let the hu around the area The schoolhouse was still standing, but many of the hoh the street, bags swinging, and I did a double take Notfor the nearest exit, or would they stay?

It appeared thatto us, they were congregating in their ho, and they weren’t fighting us

A few Reboots lifted their hands in a wave, bags slung over their shoulders, and I sed as I watched theo That made almost fifty who had decided they didn’t want to remain in Austin Many who didn’t have families couldn’t be convinced to stay and help after we lost a few ht, and our nuone Riley was still working on getting an accurate count Whatever it was, it was far less than I’d hoped

Tony and Desmond stood at the end of the street, past a mess of shuttle parts, and I stepped over the debris as I headed in their direction The hu as I neared, but Gabe s ed everything" Tony’s attitude toward me had improved tremendously when HARC retreated before sunrise and the humans reclaimed the city Desmond still mostly scowled

The humans visibly relaxed at the mention of my number I didn’t knohether I liked that reaction If Wren were here, it would have been the opposite Theyaround, but I’ve got nothing on the bounty hunters yet," Tony said before I could ask "And one now, obviously"

"I just checked, the gates aren’t live anyet in, she won’t haveto push back n of her I wanted to hop in a shuttle and start circling the perierous We’d run HARC out of Austin but they were setting up shop elsewhere, preparing for a fight One shuttle on its own beyond Austin was sure to be shot down Not to ht of a HARC vehicle