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She looked hesitant and itaround for a feeeks, but she always seeet her to co

"Okay, e can dance and stuff," he said

"Yeah That will be fun"

The blond soldier named Bette moved down the hall toward the to update the co official channels as well She was very pretty with her short hair and large blue-green eyes

"Hi," Bette said when she saw both of theain"

"I’m supposed to help a Curtis," Bette said slowly

"That’sto look official

"Great Then I’ht place"

Curtis’ eyes narrowed as the tomen looked at each other in a way he wasn’t sure how to take They seemed to share a secret, but he knew that was impossible They couldn’t have but just met

"See you around," Linda said, and Curtis wasn’t sure who she meant

"See you," Curtis said quickly

Bette just set started"

As Calhoun danced alone under the stars hours later, the fort slunored the throbbing of his head and the pain in his side He was jubilant and he was celebrating

The Amazon Bitch Queen had been dethroned and the fort still stood

It was a night to rejoice

And so he danced…

Chapter 22

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That’s a helluva lot of zoh said in an oddly terrified yet awed voice

Beside him, the Senator frowned she set her hands on her hips

Beyond the copse of trees, that they were hiding within, was a dry and scrubby swathe of field that led down to the strangled interstate below

Vehicles of every size and description for a zo traffic of nearly every city and town along I-35 had become a buffet of fresh e silent National Guard truck beside theer

I-35 cut across Texas dividing the East froether like a chain froh San Antonio, Austin, and Waco, before branching off to Fort Worth and Dallas and then continuing on up into Oklaho to have to find a way over the edthere," Raleigh said, mystified by this "Why do they just stand there?"

"They haven’t seen fresh meat yet," Ruben, the soldier, answered hi like ants toward a picnic"

"We can’t get across We need to go back," a young black soldier His name was Lewis and he looked as terrified as the rest of the hard to pretend they were not

Ben, the soldier in charge and a native of East Texas, looked griet onto the farm road"

"I don’t see ot fa across," Ben said firmly

The Senator looked toward hirim, all traces of her usual false bravado erased She was facing the reality of the situation and she didn’t like it Her plans had see in her mind It was a simple plan: show up at Central, present all the inforet the support of Central’s firepower and take over the fort

"First truck will gun it and hit that point right there Those are just sh Second truck will then follow We can do this," Ben declared "We can do this"

"They’ll follow," Raleigh pointed out "Which is exactly what Central doesn’t want"

"Fuck Central," Ben snapped