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"Yeah Just do it ht? It should be like sliding down a slope, right?"

To his aotta die, this is the way to go Wouldn’t have "

Suddenly the constant screech stopped

The container lurched so wildly that Toto lost his grip and ca downhill toward Sarabbed him

"The people back at the facility would have liked to meet Dekka," Toto said, with his face inches from Sam’s

"I’m sure they would"

Another wild lurch and suddenly the container was sliding, dropping away forward It was like a sled running doell-packed snow on a long slope

"I can’t see the ground," Dekka said "I don’t want to move You have to tellto pick out anything thatBut it was hills and scrubland and he’d never seen any of it fro down an invisible slope, letting gravity pull them forward as much as doard

"My--," Dekka cried out

Like an elevator with the cable cut, the bottom dropped The container spun sideways Sah the air, flashing on sky and ground and sea and sky again, falling and spinning, and he was sure of one thing: they were too high up and the fall would kill the into a wall The s and doors had already been bashed in and now the walls the roo broken two-by-fours and twisted conduit

Caine and Brianna cowered in the kitchen It only had walls on two sides, with one side open to the breakfast nook and a counter separating the fa to throw Soh to do any dah walls

"This isn’t right," Caine said

"You think?" Brianna yelled

"They’re anient!"

"I don’t care if they speak Latin and can do trigonometry," Brianna yelled "Hoe kill theotten frustrated and moved off to look for someone else to eat," Caine said

"Maybe we’re extra tasty"

"There’s an intelligence behind this A plan"

"Yeah, the plan is kill the two of us and no one will be left to stop them," Brianna said