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"Think," coo-yôn said "Safety starts with you" Huh? He pointed to an old workplace sign that I could barelythat for e I squinted and e,some map tables "Why ain’t there a soul?" I trailed off when soealed in the dirt

I gazed past the tables My vision couldn’t be right, ’cause I saw hacked-up and bullet-riddled bodies

Glassy eyes Jutting tongues A nearly severed head Spatter painted the walls

Who’d done this bloodbath? "Youyou gotta be working with Gabe? Joules?"

Though Matthew had never locked gazes withtone, he said, "Hunts And cans"

"You did this?" He’d never once set out to hurt anyone before Never even raised his voice, except with fear

"They did it to theuns"

Two dead overseers had bloody machetes in hand Others held rifles I’d been so far down in the unshots "But you soain, I felt like I ith a stranger

A man’s voice sounded from the entrance: "Where the hell is everybody?"

"Putain!" I bit out under my breath "The next shift must be here A dozen ht ideas?"

In the space of a heartbeat, he was back to being a nonchalant seventeen-year-old "Didn’t get farther than this My power ran out"

"Go snatch a gun off the dead!"

Blank look

"All right, take uided rab an autohtened--

A bullet whizzed past o!" I fired blindly over my shoulder A yell told me I’d hit somebody

As Matthew started away, more bullets peppered thehated being dead weight! I blindly fired again Click Click Out of a their precious bullets, probably ’cause ere headed into the mine We’d be trapped The only other way out was the impossible exit: the vehicle bay

Coo-yôn led ht Then left Right again Unless so toward our dooedA six-foot-tall truck wheel? He’d stopped at one of those monster-size haulers

"Here, Hunter!" He waved toward soed in front of my eyes Must be ten feet up to the hauler’s cab "Leave me I can’t make those--"