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I was about to ask if he needed a hand, orresponse that cament--my eyes widened

"Willow?" I whispered up to him "How’d she knoe’d be down here?"

"She didn’t," Sirate slid open above his head "That’s why I gave her the signal In case so It was our backup plan"

Willow stood above us, peering down into the opening i "What took you two so long?" she criticized, but she was sain, I checked out the sterile-looking halle stood in The lights here were bright, reflecting off the ultra-white tiles beneath us The whole thing--the explosion, the gas-releasing key card, and the underground tunnels--was so secret agent–y I couldn’t help feeling like so for signs eren’t alone

"Safe-ish Most everyone was sent offsite They’re convinced we got a good five-ent Truman’s sure a piece’a work Thinks his shit don’t stink, don’t he? Wouldn’t even put on a haz-suit"

Willow hadn’t heard e had, about theh suits for everyone Still, it was hard to i his own safety for that of his h," Willow said

My heart withered

"Surprised you waited for us" Siive you another sixty seconds, and then you were on your own," she shot back

"That right?" Sily

Willow glanced at her watch--a black tiht from the military and could withstand a nuclear blast Envy that she knew the tirin parted her lips "No, actually You were down to forty-three seconds"

Sihed and nodded toward Willow’s backpack, which was bulkier than it had been when she’d left the lab, and sagged like it was being weighted down--a telltale sign that she’d been scavenging while ere laying low in the underground tunnels "Looks like you found sorew "You knowI had some time"

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