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A burst fro embers before he had a chance to act But the fourth troll had vanished She flicked her gun around without success The creature had either melted into the mist or was never there in the first place

'Everyone out!'

The commander jumped from the truck and the others followed Liala dropped down beside hi on her belly Their route took the in the rabbed it

'Get down into the ditch!'

They plunged into the ditch beside the road

'Start crawling!'

The coet away before the fourth troll returned fire They couldn't see hi the truck It stood out clearly in the le followed another as she squir with the dolphins and she had no difficulty keeping up with the commander He was clearly impressed by her performance

'Well done, Princess'

'Do you think there's a fourth troll out there?'

'I've never co ray of light cut through the darkness before the co It came from the marshes and the truck exploded in a ball of flae but were nothing coun It was easy to understand why the guardians treated the old-fashioned weapons with such disdain

The commander tried to return fire with the weapon he had taken from the dead troll but without success

'It's a dedicated weapon,' Liala explained

'What do you mean?'

'Only that troll can use it and he's dead'

'So It's sodding useless'

He threw the gun into the mud

'No' Liala snatched it back up 'The power pack is standard issue'

She yanked the gun open, reun The fourth troll had coht of the blazing truck He ht they had been incinerated because he was ht squeeze and a brilliant flash sent the troll reeling A harder squeeze would have vaporised hiun back into her pocket and wondered when she would have to use it again