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Aric veered around a motor hoain "She’s fired Two Picking up speed!"

Joules let loose another pair Two more strikes No combustion

Aric said, "You are capable of this, Tower I have seen you do it before"

Joules gave a yell and hurled two more I heldtoward us

A web of lightning exploded into the sky Sizzling electricity unlike anything I’d ever seen

The missiles exploded in the electric net

"Oi, noe are cookin’ with gas!"

"That chick’s got to be out of missiles," Finn said "I only saw four last time"

Aric maneuvered around more wrecks "She hasn’t fired bul--"

Bullets bit into the highway on both sides of us "Get inside!" I cried

Joules and Gabriel dropped down

Aric swerved, narrowly ers still seat-belted in Another spray of bullets sent pieces of that car at us, but he evaded the debris With his cold focus, he threaded two big rigs, then dodged a locoe

Heart racing, I said, "And to think I once wondered if you’d ever driven a car"

"I can’t outrun those bullets round inches away Ricocheting pavement busted my"Shit!" Wind rushed into the truck My hair whipped, ood" A Baght my attention As if in slowcrazy

We passed a second one It placed a slioing insaneor Sol was screith us Another Baght--where there was a turnoff onto a s us?

The Evie of old would swear she and Sol had shared a moment, that some kind of bond had formed The Evie of late would say, "Trust no one Kill first; ask later" As Gran had repeatedly said, Arcana were all treacherous and disloyal killers Aric too had little trust in other players

Which Evie would I choose to be?

Just as the line of bullets veered toward us, I said, "Aric, take the next right!" Damn it, I would create my own symbols I would fill in ht, and we skidded onto the smaller road "Are you familiar with this area?"

I didn’t answer At the next junction, another Bagger pointed left "Go left"

We fishtailed left, the line of fire stitching the paveh canyons Bullets struck the rock walls, instead of us; I just prayed they wouldn’t ricochet the wrong way

"Much better terrain, sievā Is the Fool speaking to you?"

Gabriel said, "Will the calls return?"