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“But why all these painful attacks?” asked Knox
Rogers rubbed his legs “They installed an endoskeleton est person on earth”
“So what’s happening to it?” asked Knox
“After thirty years it appears to be dissolving Orit, I don’t know”
“Is there any way to reverse it?” asked Puller
“Not so anyone’s told me”
Puller and Knox exchanged a glance Puller shook his head
Knox said, “Okay, then we need to get to Davis and/or Myers I have to believe that if they’re alive they’re at Ballard’s”
Rogers said, “I got into the place before I can do it again”
“But this time we’ll be with you,” said Puller
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YOU SCALED THAT ith no rope?”
Puller, Knox, and Rogers were flat on their bellies on the beach looking up at the Ballard compound They had on black ski masks pulled down over their faces
Behind the any noises they ht have made
Rogers
held up his hand and flexed his fingers “This is all I need”
Puller carried a loop of rope over one shoulder
Their plan was fairly straightforward Rogers would scale the wall and then use the rope to get Puller and Knox to the top of it
They had watched the sentries ed it up froaps in the system
“They’re going to be on higher alert,” said Knox “They know you got away and that you’re with us”
“And we’re not going to kill any of theers
The ot a problem with that, stay on the beach”
Puller stared at hi moment “Actually, that’s the same rule I have”
They had chosen the far left corner of the wall to iven his shoes and socks to Puller, who’d put them in his small knapsack
Puller and Knox watched as Rogers, the rope looped around his shoulder, scaled the wall like he alking down the street He reached the top, scanned all around, and then lifted himself onto the top of the wall and lay flat
Knox looked at Puller “Okay, now I’ve seen everything”
“You ht see even more in just a few minutes”
Rogers let the rope doound the other end around his waist, and gripped the edge of the capstone as he served as the anchor point for the other two
Knox went first, and within ten seconds she was lying next to Rogers
Puller joined them in about the same amount of time
They peered into the courtyard, saw that their as clear, and used the same process to descend into the courtyard They raced to a far corner of one of the outbuildings and took stock of their situation
They shrank farther back as an aruard came into view and met up with another on rounds Theon separately
Rogers pointed to an upstairson the main house “That’s Davis’s room”
“How do you know that?” asked Knox
“I brought her here after she went on a bender at the Grunt Ballard’s rooot most of the floor Or whoever it is up there I don’t knohere Myers ht be”
“And they know you killed the ‘fake’ Ballard?” whispered Puller
Rogers nodded “I told Jericho”