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"Can you show eant asked

Sara led him around to the back and side doors Soldiers arrived with sheets of plywood and began ha

"Those won’t keep a drac out," Sara said They were standing at the front of the building, whereused to cover the s

"They’re not for the dracs"

Sweet Jesus, she thought

"Do you have a weapon, uns lying around"

He walked to the first truck and returned with a rifle and pistol He held theainst the grain; a hospital still ht, the pistol" She tucked it into her waistband

"You’ve used one before?" the sergeant said "I can give you the basics if you want"

"That won’t be necessary"

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In the stockade, Alicia was gauging the strength of the chains

The bolt on the as negligible--one hard yank should do it--but the shackles were a problem They were constructed of a hardened alloy of some sort Probably they had come from Tifty’s bunker; the man had made a science of viral containment So even if she freed herself frohter

The thought of sleep enticed her Not hts away But her drea she cared to revisit: the brilliantly lit city dissolving to darkness; the happy cries of life within waning, then gone; the pitiless, disappearing door

And then there was the other issue: Alicia wasn’t alone

The feeling was subtle, but she could tell Fanning was still there: a sort of low-grade hu over the surface of her , ready to be done with it all

Get out of oddamnit Haven’t I done what you asked? Leave me the hell alone