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“I had kind of a busy night,” Sam said, his voice now poisonous with sarcasm

“So let etting any food, and not stopping Caine and all, not keeping the lights on, so et Hunter”

“And do ith hiive her so plan, Zil?”

Zil spread his hands in a gesture of innocence “Hey, all ant to do is get hiive hiet him”

“No one is stopping you fro him,” Sam said “You can walk around town all you like You can adraffiti and count the number of s you broke”

“We need guns,” Zil said “I’uns And your wetback friend there says we regular people can’t carry guns”

Saistered the insult Edilio looked grim but calm Calmer than Sam felt

“Hunter is a proble list of proble to make trouble between people with powers and people without powers is not helping anything Neither is calling people naether”

When Zil didn’t i past Zil to speak to the whole group “Here’s the thing, people: We have sohts are off And it see the water flow in part of town So, no baths or showers, okay? But the situation is that we think Caine is short of food, whichat the power plant”

“How long?” someone yelled

Sam shook his head

“I don’t know”

“Why can’t you get him to leave?”

“Because I can’t, that’s why,” Saer show “Because I’ht? Look, he’s inside the plant The walls are thick He has guns, he has Jack, he has Drake, and he has his oers I can’t get hi some of our people killed Anybody want to volunteer for that?”

Silence