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A good thing? Are there good things left? For carriers? I don’t allow ly "You shouldn’t be handing out invitations You don’t know that she can stay"

"You young people," he mutters "All so serious"

I snort Noho’s the comedian? He’s one of the first adults I’veseriously Even the bullet in ht, since I’o to ain at ht now, here we go Hang on And re

Or I wish I was, because he’s digging into htheAssurances or sympathetic words or advice to himself I’m not sure I just want his a little deeper and I bite down on thethe sheet betweenof a bullet as he drops it in the tray

I unclench , all tension easing fro pain The warm sensation of blood trickles down my side, but there’s a cloth suddenly there to catch it, wiping at irl clean me up I wince as needle and thread puncture my serrated flesh

"Now you’ll need to remain in the infir reat deal of pain, and it will be best for you to be in here where I can keep an eye on you Soht not want to stay in bed"

"I need to find my friends" My lips brush the mattress as I speak "They crossed into Mexico I mean I hope they did If they weren’t captured--"

"Nah, ould have heard on the wire if any carriers were captured or killed last night in this area Although they’re lucky they made it Few carriers roups out there, but none as efficient and organized as us But you can worry about the anywhere for a while"

His words, even as I register their logic, fill me with bitter frustration Every ap between me and the others stretch wider It’s like I can al, but they keep getting farther and farther away from me

"What is this place?" I ask

Phelps pats the back of my head "Hasn’t anyone told you? Welcome to the resistance"

2016 Conversation between Colonel Anderson and General Dumont

COLONEL ANDERSON: You knohere this is headedthis Wainwright fella People are actually listening to him Iuessing you don’t see our forced retirement as an opportunity to finally write that memoir?