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Jettisoning the parts wouldn’t work He’d tried that before with the construct we fought It wrapped around him and tried to crush hiain Of course, that ti the construct This time we probably wouldn’t, but we had three constructs instead of one, and they wouldn’t be standing still while Rogan played telekinetic baseball with their particles If they were le piece, he would toss them so far and so fast, they’d make a sonic boom as they flew by But they wereeach part individually

"Isolation is the an said "I need to bury theht, so they can’t reform"

"We could crack the wall for you, sir," one of the teae place it up We can’t guarantee that they would all be the saan frowned "I’d need a circle and time We have to occupy the constructs until then"

Occupy theet priority protocols?" I asked "Would they be able to differentiate between a high- and low-priority target?"

Rogan’s face shut down "No"

"No, they don’t?" I clarified

"No, I won’t let you do this"

"Last tian" I smiled at him "I can do whatever I want And you know Sturet Even if they don’t have target prioritization, the aninize me"

His blue eyes darkened "No, you can do whatever I judge to be strategically sound I have the nue of it, and I’ bait"

"Rogan, what exactly are you going to do if I don’t listen to you?" I asked "Refuse to fight Stur Sturround out

"No, you can’t," Catalina said quietly

Rogan’s ic splayed out around hiic-sensitive people in the roo to put so power It shot out and ic

We stared at each other The tension in the room was so thick, you could slice it with a knife and serve it with tea

Leon whistled a an crossed his ar on surviving long enough?"

"She’s going to let her grandma handle that," Grandma Frida said

"I would like to help," Edward Sherwood said

The rooe," Rynda said softly "And you’re still recovering"

"But I am a Prime My brother is at the root of all this an said "We can use your help"

I crouched in the field Rogan waited like an impassive statue next to ht electric jewel in the ht fields We’d doubled around the co to the coate and the uardhouse inside the electrified fence periht, and two ht

The place looked like a prison

Around ht I checked ave us We had cut it too close The as rising, the air thick as soup with violent ic

Behind me, Cornelius stood with his head bowed Behind him, Diana and Blake, Cornelius’ older brother, waited quietly, eight jaguars sitting at their feet, three black and five golden The big cats watched the night with their bottomless eyes Matilda sat with the cats, a huure out why everyone insisted on bringing her with us despite the danger When I asked Diana about it, she just smiled

Edward Sherwood stood by hi seeds out of a large packet around hi left to do but wait