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us lock him up, or…”

Howard sidled up “We standing around here all night or what? Orc’s, like, let’s do this or let o to sleep”

“I kind of thought we’d take a couple of minutes to think it over,” Sam snarled “We’ve probably lost Breeze But if you’d rather just have Orc go barreling in there alone, fine”

“No,down quickly

Saave it a little squeeze “He es”

“Yeah,” Edilio agreed “My guys Mike and Mickey and Brittney and Josh”

“Okay, as long as we understand,” Saave just the slightest nod in return

“Here’s un, starts to blast One, two, three rounds, then bounces out At that point we hit theh the turbine room”

“Yep,” Edilio said “Straight through the turbine room”

Looking perfectly casual, Edilio slung his knapsack off his shoulder and began ru inside He called over to a kid named Steve, one of his soldiers “Hey, Steve, ht here in my backpack”

Steve frowned and headed over The pockets of his cargo pants were bulging

Edilio drew a gun—too big, too brightly colored, and too plastic to be real from his backpack He pumped it once, leveled it at waist level, and fired

A thin stream of watered-down yellow paint sprayed thirty feet

At the same time Steve drein cans of spray paint from his pants, aimed, and fired