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"No one’s criticizing it," Sied kneecap would have dragged him a lot better" He ja it pivot al a panoraodda on the ground except for her," he cocked his head doards Maria

"Speaking of her," Laines at a slightly different tilt "It looks like they’ve got her cornered"

"Where? Who?" he asked, even as he spotted the blue unifor out of the woods "Oh hell"

Si to shoot her"

"Or arrest her," the captain halfway argued "She’s been arrested plenty of times before Maybe that’s all they’ll do"

Then, as she turned tail and ran, even up inside the Free Crow he could hear the soldiers open fire

"Well shit," Hainey swore

"Captain," Sirouchily, "Yes, I’uns?"

"Ues and said, "Mostly full Not totally full, but ive her soled with so for a minute, then said, "Yes, that’s what I want Strafe the strip behind her--keep theet a lead on them"

"But sir!" Si, and she paid it She turned Brink loose for me when she could’ve shot him and saved herself a little peril The least we can do is cover her getahile we look for the thief"

"Fine," Simeon sulked, and he pulled a panel with un, stable Tilt forty-five degrees, set"

Hainey yelled, "Fire!"

And the Free Crow gently bucked as its front gun strafed the clearing floor behind Belle Boyd, as now nothingbetween the trees One soldier went down i bullets; and another dodged in tirass and cover his head

"Where’s she going?" Hainey asked no one in particular

But La toward the sanatoriu in that direction"

Froe point Hainey could see that this was going to work out poorly for the wo with activity…and with soldiers, yelling orders and herding each other out into a defensive forh none of her other options looked any good either Behind her, the captain spotted a contingent of Union reinforce out as they closed in

"She’s a dead woman," Simeon observed

Below, she stopped as if she’d heard hiazed up directly at the Free Croaved her arht

"I don’t get it," Hainey said "What’s she trying to say?"

"That she wants a ride," the first …"

She held her hands over her , over and over, and then she resuesture with his eyes He said, "Well I’ll be daain Look at that--look at what that crazy bastard is trying to do!"

West of the outbuilding, and west of the woods where Belle Boyd was about toits way off the hill

Simeon said, "Brink?" as if he could scarcely believe it "He can’t fly that devil all by hiood"

"Maybe not, but he’s trying," the captain observed "Boyd ines She’s closer to him than we are" And then he said, "Aw, hell"

Laain,down and pick her up"

Si with things he knew better than to say out loud to his captain, so he said, "Yes sir," through tight lips "You steer us down I’ll hold us level"

"Let’s hope she has the good sense to get on board," Hainey said "I’ to take us back a few feet, and we can come up behind her Position, set?"