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The pod suddenly lost power Liala peered out of theand saw that Bryn's pod had suffered a si in the second coured that Crispin was no longer in control A brain in a jar had taken over and was out to destroy them

The pilot's voice caet us down safely'

He was one of the prisoners About fifty had squeezed in with the Liala lookalikes Most were resistance fighters and soh about pods to fly the doouldn't be easy There could hardly be a worse place to , They were in the heart of the industrial zone Fires were raging on all sides and the entire area was crawling with trolls that had been sent in to fight the blaze

The hulking brutes were standing around in groups, staring up at the pod as it hurtled towards the Anyone with any sense would have run for their lives Then it occurred to her that thinking wasn't the correct word Trolls didn't think They were prograrammed to put out fires, bow to royalty, check travel peruardians' hold on power How they behaved depended on how they saw the world

If she and the other Lialas were still coded green the trolls would go through the bowing and stoed to brown they would deed to pink they would try to kill them

She braced herself for the i for a small park with stands of trees and neat flowerbeds The pod ploughed through the trees, wiped out a fire truck and splashed down in an ornarinding to a halt in a shrubbery

The loss of the fire truck and destruction of the statues had no effect on the trolls They continued to look gor branches The gun crews turned their weapons on theunners said

Black s It filled the air and sures running through the snised the Crispin lookalikes They were heavily arht at them