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"Ho both units now Okay to proceed at twenty-two thirty Satellite feed showsconsiderable activity in your sector"

I’usted to hear him referred to as "Minder," Rob or me He didn’t have a team of kids like Cate, but anyone who supervised a freak kid on an Op was slapped with that title

"There’s a protest in the Old Man’s Yard," Rob said I looked up, scraht We were passing by the university’s tree-lined park, with its crisscrossing paths Hundreds, e bonfire, ignoring the sleet falling around thens and dru between the protesters and the sruntled police officers that had thee of the sh the line of unifor?" Jude whispered, his breath fogging up the glass I didn’t answer, justthe blocks we passed--one, two, three, four, five

The a stop a short distance away froray slate roof Rob unhooked his seat belt and stood, stretching slightly as he cli a hand to his ear I felt his eyes slide over to me, but I kept ain

This kid is going to get hie ofthe Op at HQ "Goose Egg is a go"

"Roger," Barton said, and Rob echoed him

He was looking a little ragged, a dark beard coe of his square jaw, but Rob’s eyes were alert He tossed the boy the other EMT jacket and a cap--like that could hide the fact that Jude looked about two years younger than he actually was

"Don’t say a word, don’t fidget, and follow et your ass back here," he told the boy Then, turning to me, he added, "You knohat to do?"

I ht on "I do"

Rob needed Jude to disable the house’s alaret the professor out on the chance that any neighbors got nosy and opened their curtains at the wrongfifteen-minute lap so I could work him into a state of cooperation, then dump him back on a sidewalk, his memory erased of the encounter If he proved to be too hard to crack, Rob had a safe house we could bring hiuess

Rob opened the back door, letting in a freezing draft of air He and Reynolds pulled the gurney down, along with a duffel bag Jude ringing his hands again

I grabbed his arave me a little salute and clenched his teeth in a way thatnot to puke all over hiator"

The door slammed shut behind them In an hour, sunflower

In all of the wild daydreams I’d had about the day I’d finally pack it up and leave, none of the this moment I didn’t expect to feel as calm as I did The first time I had escaped fro my feet beforeor hoas going to get there I had just run It was only dumb luck that I had found Zu and the others

I couldn’t rely on luck this time I didn’t have tiht The steady coer than any of the wild, raw eas station I had so to accomplish and people to protect, and no one--especially not Rob Meadoas going to keepas there was breath in ht flipped on as the three of thelance back over his shoulder at me, then disappeared around the side of the porch to the little power box that controlled the house’s electricity

When the porch light switched off and Rob bent over the gold door lock, I shrugged out of the League’s heavy black coat, pulling out a lighter and the Swiss Ar them in my boots Lia, but it didn’t have a tracking device in it

I climbed up to the driver’s seat and popped the door open My boots had just landed in the snohen Jude came around the back of the a a hand over his er toI had to take his wrist and drag hi the ambulance’s bulk block us froh voice in lanced up at the street sign--Garfield Street--and tried to get s I had to put as one; I could outrun him on foot, but I couldn’t outrun a car…especially not with Jude If we could ht be able to lose him and Reynolds in the crowd Rob wouldn’t think to look for us in the one place we had a decent chance of being caught He was a brute, and a vicious one at that, but he wasn’t very ihtly frazzled but otherwise all right The as knocking around his hat and tugging atoversounds fro I had ever felt in Virginia It was sharp, a persistent clawing at every bare inch of skin I tried picking upback the tears and snow flurries, but Jude was struggling to keep up as it was Patches of ice snapped underfoot, branches hidden beneath the old snow crushed as I tras South, south, south--I just needed to keep heading south, and I’d find Harvard Yard, and the protesters, and escape