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I turned to Desed in his eye socket?" I guessed

He nodded with a wince "Really disgusting, too"

"Thank you," Callu ed, and lots of HARC officers were on their knees on the ground A tiny group of officers were holding out, firing off shots at the rebels A few officers took off running in our direction, and I juh the air

Des up next to me and I darted in front of him, but it was too late He doubled over as blood spread across his stoht hie band of huround

Tony was at my side in seconds, and Callum moved away as he knelt down next to Desh I quickly turned away, unfire had stopped in front of the facility, but I could still hear traces of it in the slums The humans were dirty and bloodied, and the Reboots didn’t look o into the slu up the HARC officers for containment, but it all felt like too un and wrappedbreath

FORTY-ONE

CALLUM

THE ROSA HARC FACILITY LOOKED LIKE IT MIGHT CRUMBLE AT ANY moment, so we made sure there were no Reboots locked in their rooms and moved everyone out of the area Dead bodies were strewn across the lawn, and when the sun began to rise the scene was gruesoether the HARC prisoners, including Officer Mayer, and piled them into HARC transport vans headed for Austin Isaac and a few other Reboots went to New Dallas to check on the HARC situation there, and reported back that most of the HARC officials fled or abandoned their posts when they arrived Many blended into the hu up their duties with little protest

Wren ith Addie and Leb to do a sweep of the city and slums and they returned with a few more humans and HARC officers who’d shot at the the human cells in the Austin capitol as a prison until they could figure out what to do with everyone I thought about asking as guarding this prison, and ould decide the appropriate punishment, but I wasn’t sure I wanted to know Not today, anyway

Wren had disappeared, and I found her on the lawn of the facility, sitting next to Riley’s body Her ar across her knees, her head bent down, and she didn’t move at all when I knelt down in front of her

"Do you want to bury hi the back of her hand across her eyes before she looked at me "No, Riley would think that was stupid We should creers around her ar to leave her alone, but she got to her feet and slipped her hand into mine We walked off the HARC lawn to where Leb and Addie were standing with a large group of Reboots

Leb glanced over at Wren, his expression half surprise, half sympathy She had dirt and blood smeared on her clothes, and her shoulders were slu I suspected that here Leb’s surprise came from, because it seemed that even the people who knew her were shocked to discover she had emotions like theht hug her but seeestured to Addie "I didn’t think you’d go to get her out"

Wren was al my life that one time," Addie piped in with a shed softly "No problem I’d say we’re even now"

Addie pointed to a shuttle a few hundred yards away "Are you guys going back to Austin? That shuttle is going to take some people soon"

Wren looked athere?" Wren asked Addie and Leb