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Every time the occupants of the van had to roll do, I stopped breathing, waiting for the screah outside the footprint of the stor I believe in banking on Thank God for bug repellent

With the road e as fast as we dared, we cleared fortyin just under thirty e road that paralleled I-5 but waswall uess if you were one of the people who lived in the tiny houses and aging trailer parks we passed, you were shit out of luck That’s soet: The world ed, but some people still can’t afford to come in out of the cold The poor didn’t have advanced security systems or hermetically sealed s, and now that Kellis-Amberlee had found itself a new vector…

It didn’t really bear thinking about

We were passing Ashland, Oregon, when ain "Go," I said

"Shaun?" Becks sounded uncertain "The GPS just gave me our final destination"

"And?"

"And it’s Shady Cove"

I ed to keep control of the bike, but only because I had George to take care of the vital business of swearing like a madwoman at the back of my head while I focused on the road "Are you sure?"

"I’ pause before she asked, "What are the odds that she’s driving us into a trap?"

"I don’t know What are the odds that we have anywhere else to go?" She didn’t answerto Shady Cove, Becks Tell everybody to take off the safeties and keep their eyes on the mirrors"