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"That’s it, punk!" The guard reaches for a control panel on the wall, and as he’s sto blast rattles the entire jail The guard stu to his knees I drop and instinctively roll beneath the bed Pande ht flashes in the corridor

I roll onto rip on the chain binding htenmy hands and feet in two I use telekinesis to unlock my cuffs and drop them to the floor I do the same with the pair around my ankles

"John!" Sam yells from down the hall

I crawl to the front of the cell "Right here!"

"What’s going on?"

"I was going to ask you the sa!" I yell back

Other prisoners shout through their cell bars, too The guard who fell in front of ash on his head

The ground shakes again It’sof dust barrels down the corridor froh the bars and yell to the guard, "Let et your cuffs off?"

I see he’s disoriented, wavering a few steps to his right, a few to his left, ignoring the other guards who run by hiuns drawn He’s covered in dust

A thousand gunshots coht end of the corridor A roar of a beast answers them

"John!" Sam screams in a pitch I’ve never heard frouard and yell, "We’re all going to die in here if you don’t let uard looks towards the roars and terror spreads across his face He slowly reaches for his gun, but before he can touch the grip it floats away froht walk--and I watch as the guard spins in confusion and runs

Six becoe pendant still around her neck, and from the second I see her face I know she’s pissed at et me out of here

"What’s down there, Six? Is Sa," I say

She looks down the corridor and concentrates on so down the corridor, right into her hands She inserts them into a metal panel on the wall My door unlocks I run out of my cell and I’, with at least forty cells between one, as is the wall it should be on, and I’uards are in its mouth, and drool mixed with blood falls from its razor-sharp teeth

"Sam!" I yell, but he doesn’t answer I turn to Six "Sam’s down there!"

She disappears before my eyes, and five seconds later I watch another cell slide open Sam rushes towards !"

Inches fro the piken Not here"

"Are you kidding me?" I ask

"There’s more iet to Spain irabsat a full clip Sah two sets of doors with Six’s keys As the second one is flung open, we’re faced with seven Mogs running with cylindrical cannonlike tubes and swords Instinctively, I reach for un then holds me and Sa is spun around, and his sword slices across the two behind hi in the back and he falls on his oord She’s invisible before he dies

Saes the collar ofand then pick up his dropped tube Hundreds of lights spark to life the second h another Mog I aim for the last two, but Six has already appeared behind the with telekinesis She slaround in front of round My jeans are covered in their ash

Six unlocks another door and we enter a large room with dozens of cubicles on fire Holes s at police, and police are firing back Six wrestles a sword away fro and cuts off his ar cubicle wall I blast the stu in the back with my tube, and he falls into a black heap of ash

I see an unconscious Detective Murphy on the ground Six darts through the s turn to ash all around her Police retreat through a door on the far left as Six slices through a circle of Mogs closing in on her I shoot and shoot, destroying those on the perimeter

When the room is clear, we run down an empty hallway under a shower of sparks

"There!" Sa lot We don’t hesitate, each one of us juh sparks and ser and the tablet sitting on the desk in the office I reach over and scoop the Six and Sam into a deep ditch that provides us plenty of cover

"We’re not going to talk about that right now," Six says, her ar fast She dropped the sword atube under a bush

"But do you have it, though?"

"John, not right now"

"But do you--"

Six comes to an abrupt halt

"John! You want to knohere your Chest is?"

"In the trunk of the car?" I ask, y

"Nope," she says "Try again"

"Hidden in a Duust of wind sendsuntil I hit a massive oak tree She marches towards me, fists at her sides "How is she?"

"Who?" I ask

"Your girlfriend, you asshole! Was it worth it? Was it worth leaving et your Chest back to see precious little Sarah? Was it worth getting arrested for? Did you get enough kisses to ain?"

"No," I mumble "I think Sarah turned us in"

"I think so, too," Sam says

"And you!" Six spins around to raise her finger at Saht you were senius, and you think it’s a good idea to go to the one place in the whole world that the police would definitely be watching?"