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Who would stop him? They weren’t in the United States They were on a distant continent No one knew they were here, and there was nothing stopping Vengerov froerov would find out Toh his eyes He’d realize To, and when he culled Tohosts and Medusa was the other one Toive her away and he knew he couldn’t stop that fro

Tom closed his eyes He couldn’t let that happen Vik and Wyatt didn’t know about Medusa, so they could surrender They should surrender

"Wyatt’s right We don’t have a choice," Toerov shows o this way Just lie on the floor"

To down, to be sure Wyatt and Vik would do it, too When they were both down, gazing at the floor, breathing so hard he could see it, Toain

There were a s he wished he could say to Vik and Wyatt, but he knew even if he tried, he wouldn’t get the words out They’d all get tangled up in his throat, and his friends would both realize what he was about to do and maybe talk him out of it--and he’d let them persuade him because he didn’t want to do this He didn’t It killed hi to see them escape But the only one he could help noas Medusa He could still send her a erov was onto her

But not from within Obsidian Corp’s walls

To backward, his legs shaking as he inched toward the door leading outside It felt like h quicksand And then he was there, his hand on the chilled doorknob, and To out He shoved open the door, the wall of overpowering cold like ahim But To at him to turn around

Then he closed the door behind hi, intolerable cold

For ahian to freeze as the wind knifed his skull, drove spikes into his eardrums His neural processor advised him to seek shelter, but Tom kneould never surrender to the census device if he stayed out there

His neural processor connected with the roa tears out of his eyes and froze the into his head A nightmare of the past reared back to life under the pitiless sky cut with vivid stars and a green veil of solar winds as To er and larger above hi, and then a wave of displaced air knocked hi his eardru above his head

I saw your note, Mordred, Medusa net-sent hiaped up at Medusa’s drone, too shocked to feel cold for a moment, and he shouted into the wind, "My friends are still trapped inside!"

I around, and its weapons flashed at the side of the warehouse, ripping a gaping hole into it Through the sudden blast of heat, Torab her and they ducked as the drone roared over their heads across the warehouse

That’s when swarh the opening Medusa’s Centurion began firing at theed forward until he reached Vik and Wyatt, his lungs alternately stabbed by heat and cold, and he helped haul theht and jerked theh the night, Medusa’s drone spinning in the air as it fired back And then Vik and Wyatt were crowding against hi them as fire consumed the warehouse Snow and sparks swirled around them as Praetorian after Praetorian was blasted apart

"T-T-To violently

And then behind theed ship lowered itself onto the snow, passenger coet to theer