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'Why are they doing that for us?'
'My brother, Crispin, a it for real'
'Prince Crispin is on our side?'
'We're both on your side and we are going to win'
Allain's truck reached the end of the line of trolls and the truck with the Crispin lookalikes followed The sto continued Then it was the turn of the Lialas The girls held their guns at the ready There was no need to hide theun like the TV princess
'Is your gun real, Princess?'
'My gun is a ray gun like theirs' Liala pointed to the line of bowing trolls 'When we've freed the prisoners we'll raid the munitions factories Crispin has checked them out They're stacked with the latest weapons You'll all have ray gunsI'll show you how to use the and sto continued and didn't stop when the last of the Plaid Koerno trucks filed past Other carnival trucks got the same treatment One carried a dance troop Another had a band with drums and brass horns It set up a colossal din and prisoners appeared from the huts
'Continue to hold fire'
Allain's voice came over the radio Liala shuddered whenever she heard it Bryn said the transmissions eak and unlikely to be detected She reuardians sent in killer pods when they felt threatened If that happened, nothing would re hole and a cloud of steam where Elm Grove West Correctional Centre once stood
The carnival trucks fanned out and drove ast the huts The band continued to play and men dressed as clowns shepherded the prisoners towards the trucks Liala waved her arms
'I need someone to fly a pod'
Two oing to take one of their pods and raid the hters as the pod will carry and I want the best'
She turned to the growing crowd of prisoners
'If you are fit to fight and can use a ray gun come with me Otherwise, stay here and wait for the truck to return'
Men dashed forward and the girls pulled them onto the truck Liala thu up stones as they bounced over the frozen ground
There were six pods Four were supply vehicles designed for heavy loads The other tere co The truck skidded to a halt beside one of the combat pods