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"Woe have such nice friends," Liaed frolanced over, his brows raised in a silent question I nodded, and he turned to look down--to the woed, olive-toned skin sagging rinkles and obvious strain What must have once been an expensive navy dress had torn at the skirt sea loosely froray with either ce at the sight of the kids
"Do you knoho this is?" Cole demanded
"A civilian who can now identify all of us and report back to the military," Sen shot back
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"Christ, you reeted with blank looks "One of California’s senators? The Federal Coalition’s international liaison? She worked on establishing contacts and negotiating possible support from other nations"
Sen didn’t look iain, her hands on her hips "Did you even bother trying to confirm her identity? If she ith the FC, why isn’t she in one of the detainment camps?"
"I can speak to that"When the attacks began, I waswith Around news org?" Gates asked
Liam turned to look at me, confused I explained quietly, in as feords as I could The group had been around for two years, maybe three My take was that it was mostly a collection of reporters and editors who had landed on Gray’s shit list for covering "dangerous" topics like riots and protests, and then had to go into hiding
He opened hisin his eyes
"Which, yes--" Cole looked at the other agents "I realize it says so about her common sense, but--"
"Excuse me?" The senator crossed her arood track record of lory here and there before Gray shuts theain "Online, on the social media sites that haven’t been blocked yet, quick-and-dirty pa jack shit done"
This was clearly the one thing Cole and Sen were in agreeot trapped with her in the city," Cole told the others "I was out doing the usual sweeps and heard thehim, not her Shot him on the spot, and probably would have done the same to her if she hadn’t identified herself"
"So you swept in, saving the day" Sen rolled her eyes The hatred I felt for the woment I felt myself take another step forward "And all you succeeded in doing was bringing in anotherof--" Cole slid the stuffed backpack off his shoulder and tossed it to one of the Greens "Found one of those juice shops with soerators It’s not a lot, but better than the crap we’ve been eating"
The girl looked like he’d just handed her a birthday cake he’d personally baked and frosted Chubs was over there and unzipping it so quickly, I think heCole, trying to pass a whole apple back to hih" When he turned back to Sen, his s under her look of utter conteerous in his stillness, the way he cocked his head to the right It was like a htly rougher
"I’ht you’d be ecstatic to have soet out of here, she’ll be incredibly useful in helping us connect e’re doing to the rest of the world," he said finally, his tone light "We’re turning over a new leaf, aren’t we?"
Yeah, well Sen had no interest in connecting us to the world She wanted to burn it down around us Still, there had been a question buried in his words--a challenge The longer this went on, the lances at one another So into this more deeply than the others, who seemed content to chalk the familiar tension up to the usual frustrations
He knoareness prickled at the back of ht not have known the full details, but he o back on their word to help us free the caet her to admit it in front of the kids
"I’d be happy to discuss my ideas with you," Senator Cruz said "Provided we have a way out of the city?"
The rooht They don’t have enoughso many ht, are just eit in a nearby car I pointed out the three spots I’d seen in the soldier’s es started creeping in at the corner of my mind PSFs The red-stitched Psi symbols Zip ties Muzzle Money Guns I couldn’t look at any of the agents Now that I knehat they really wanted, how they were going to repaytheir asses out of this city, a dark little voice at the back of , lie It wanted h to danger to get bruised