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But as he looked at the scab Hunter was disturbed to see that it was a strange color Not reddish like reen

He rolled his sleeve back down And forgot about it again

Sanjit stood at the edge of the cliff The binoculars didn’t show much detail But it wasn’t hard to see the plume of smoke It was like a massive, twisted exclalasses upward Far up in the sky the s into a glass ceiling But that had to be an illusion

He turned to his right and focused on the yacht His view traveled fro to fly a kite for Pixie The kite wasn’t really taking off It never did, but Pixie kept hoping and Choo kept trying Because, Sanjit reflected, as gru Sanjit wasn’t sure he could say about hi watch over Bowie His fever had stopped spiking But Sanjit knew better than to think this was a permanent i time

He stared at the helicopter Not a chance he could fly it He was going to have to convince Choo of that Because if Sanjit tried to fly the chopper he’d get all of theht die

He was too lost in his dark thoughts to notice that Virtue was running toward hi"

"What?"

Virtue pointed at the sea "Right there"

"What? I don’t see anything"

Virtue rolled his eyes "You really can’t see that?"

"Hey, I didn’t grow up searching the savannah for lions"

"Lions That’s right That’s what I spent ht he could alht be a boat He aimed the binoculars It took a while to pick out the boat and he found it by first locating its wake

"It is a boat!"

"They don’t call you Wisdo," Virtue said dryly

"There’s people in it," Sanjit said He handed the binoculars to Virtue

"It looks like maybe a half dozen people," Virtue said "I can’t see the this direction They ht just be fishing"

"The town burns up and suddenly we have a boatload of people on their way here?" Sanjit said skeptically "I’ fro"

"The fire"