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I turned away from the screen, unable to sto the things Jett was talking about It was barbaric

I inhaled, still trying to steady my stomach "How old are you, Jett?"

He ca me a sers then, his s"

"So how did you escape?"

Jett lifted his chin "My pops wasn’t the kind of guy you messed with, not even if you were a GI" He closed out the ih I wanted to askthe discussion was over

"What did I h the doorway as he joined us Willoas right behind him, and I wished she didn’t y about her, like she was hoping a fight would break out at any second just so she could let off so was her hobby

"I was just about to show her the Sats," Jett said, turning to face one of the ers danced over the keyboard, and a series of i at Google Earth: generic i the Web But then they beca in, until I recognized the citythe streetthe house he was converging on The i it

It was rown up in

Except that it looked so strangely different now, covered almost completely in plastic Enclosed the same way my mo the property, all the way around the yard, there was a tall chain-link fence that hadn’t been there before

"Quarantined?"

It was Si for evidence as well as contaet their hands on you"

"Assholes," Willoled, re me that we had an enemy in common

"What about et to him too?"

Jett went to work on the keyboard "We’ve been following the online chatter--his e boards and chat rooms, all the places he usually frequents So far he hasn’ton the police or No-Suchers’ frequencies toeither He seerid for now" A satellite picture ofat my mom’s house It, too, had been quarantined, tented in plastic sheeting and enclosed by a chain-link barricade

This ti: WARNING: RESTRICTED AREA

And at the botton, in bold red letters: USE OF DEADLY FORCE AUTHORIZED