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"Can you be more specific? What exactly is the matter?"

I answered his question with one of my own "How far out is the first periht so, but I’d hoped I rong "I didn’t feel it, Doics, and they’re so weak as to be useless The wards around PharMart are stronger"

He swore softly I figured that su moment, Dom pressed the button for the car phone link and said, "Call supervisor"

A pleasant coh the car’s speakers "Dialing supervisor now"

The phone was answered after only one ring "Anderson here," said the man at the other end

"Jason, it’s Doirl?"

"No, she’s fine She’s with me We’re headed to see Finn now But she tellswith the Needle’s ical defenses"

"How the hell would she know?"

I spoke, hoping the h bat inones hurt like a bad sunburn"

I heard the clicking of keys of a keyboard, then Anderson said, "The records say they were just checked a week ago"

"Bullshit"

"I’ll et so If the barriers have been lowered, so down"

I shook o on in and speak to the warden in person" Dom didn’t put any particular eood reason--Doh-level intuitive I’ve seen hiift but an incredibly useful one Do, fat hint that we needed to visit the prison

"If you say so But be careful, Dom I don’t like this"

Hier than the first It made my skin crawl, but there was no buzz to it, no pain This was so bad As he drove, Do me out of the corner of his eyes When he saw that I didn’t flinch at the second barrier, his eyes darkened

"Where’s thetime since I read about the prison, but that detail had stuck in s," Doht now Despite all the protests, it’s still un about the protests in the news They happened fro that the minefield was a ns The last round of pickets had taken place shortly before the overnor had , "Yeah, it’s a menace It’s supposed to be Get over it" He was reelected by a landslide

Shortly before we reached the third ring, the SUV hit a bu--a section where sensors had been put in place to scan approaching vehicles for ic and weapons This tiasped in pain as tears filledfrom the perirunted in response as we neared the outer fence and the first guard post