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The mere mention of Junior Mints made Sam’s stomach rumble

“You had…” He had to stop hied to hoard actual candy? “Deal with it,” Sa Then he stopped “Wait a minute Aren’t you two supposed to be out at the power plant?”

Alton answered “No, our shift was last night We ca in the van And I did not steal his stupid Junior Mints I didn’t even know he had Junior Mints”

“Then who stole them?” his brother de, one at the end I ate one when I got there last night and I counted the when I went to have another one, the box was empty”

Saht be one of the other kids standing guard?”

“No,” Dalton said “Heather B and Mike J were at the guardhouse And Josh was asleep the whole time”

“What do you mean Josh was asleep?” Sam said

The brothers exchanged nearly identical guilty looks Dalton shrugged “So deal—he’ll wake up if anything happens”

“Doesn’t Josh watch the security cameras?”

“He says he can’t see anything Nothing ever happens It’s just like pictures of the road and the hills and the parking lot and all”

“We stayed up Mostly,” Alton said

“Mostly HowGo ahead And stop fighting You weren’t supposed to be hoarding food, anyway, Dalton Serves you right” He wanted badly to ask where the kid had found candy, and ask if there was e Bad example

Still, Saht, what if there was still candy? Somewhere? Somewhere in the FAYZ?

Edilio’s bus began to pull away Ellen was onboard and Sarab a couple of his soldiers to help with the drafting of workers for the fields

Saine the scenes that would be played out house by house The whining The co away Followed by a lazy, mostly wasted effort to pick fruit by kids who didn’t want to work in the hot sun for hours