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"Who’s Laura?" Jenni asked

Katie took aiirl carefully

The zorip and started to pull itself up

Katie shot it through the head and it fell back

The zo on the trucks

"They’re getting smarter," Katie said softly

Travis looked ill and nodded "Yeah"

"We have the ammo It’s time to kill them all"

Jenni blinked "Yeah! They’re all corralled! Easy pickings!"

"We can’t-" Travis started, but stopped hi"

"We shouldn’t waste all that a it if we are securing our perimeter and our safety,"

Katie answered

"It’ll be like shooting fish in a barrel," Travis sighed

Jenni had one of the biggest grins on her face Katie had ever seen

"Yeah, it’ll be fun"

"You are so loca," Juan declared

"Oh, yeah, hick spic?"

"I am so not a part of this," Katie declared and slipped past the her, and when they were far enough fro two, she turned toward him His face was a mask of pain and uncertainty "We have to do this"

Travis nodded He said softly, "Once we start firing those guns, we s figuring out how to get past the trucks?"

Travis sighed "Yeah, I know In theory, the spikes could slow a lot of them down The Hurricane fence would probably stand for a little while, but then they’d be up against the wall"

Katie nodded her face tense "We cannot afford to lose ground to them"

She felt it to her bones that if the zoo well for theround, not lose it

Travis looked back at Jenni and Juan ere now cursing each other out in Spanish He blinked Jenni knew Spanish?

Katie glanced back down the hall then grinned "Kinda like kindergarten flirting, huh?"

"Uh, you’re not jealous?"

Katie snorted "Yeah, right Like I’d be jealous of Juan" She gave him a bemused look But her stomach was coiled into knots She was horribly afraid There seeave her a decidedly goofy look "Yeah, well, anyway, let’s start planning e’re doing I guess I’ll wake the Mayor"

She reached out and touched his arhed and said "The thing about war is that there are always causalities"

Katie felt a chill flon her spine and she glanced toward Jenni She felt her stohten and she looked back at Travis "But we have no choice"

"Yeah, I know," he answered sadly They stood in silence for a longJuan and Jenni "We better get the Mayor…"

Chapter 15

1 The Killing Grounds

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Curtis looked a little better than he had It was as if he was finding his role to play in this world and growing coht he was cute in a little boy sort of way Jason and Curtis often hung out, talking, and just being guys Itall he had lost

Jenni, ained Katie was back and she was just ecstatic over that fact And of course, Travis was back, too And that ht She couldn’t help it He was such an incredible guy

She phased in and out of the conversation that followed It really didn’t interest her except when they talked about killing the zo voices to the plan Juan orried about running out of aht off the bat The Mayor orried about riling up the zo some of the discussion and Katie leaned over and took her hand

Jenni kneas the "behave" signal, so she tried not to give snarky looks It wasn’t all that easy

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