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Hank se, little-boy sone Dekka’s at the power plant, right? And Sam and Edilio just blew out of town in that Jeep The whole bunch of theuess”

Zil’s heart was pounding Histo do this, were they?

But Hunter had et the food from Hunter?

Turk said, “We can’t just take out Hunter”

“Right,” Zil blurted

“We have to give him a trial first,” Turk said

And Zil found hi, like that had been his idea all along And maybe it had been Maybe it hat he had known in his heart had to happen

Yes, Zil told hiot to be, Zil You know it’s what has got to be

Every face was turned toward hi, really Not when she smiled at him like he was some kind of rock star

“We’ll have a trial Because the Hu randoh he believed it Setting aside the fact that rando s and such, was all they’d done so far “This has got to be about justice Otherwise the other normals, our people, will be weird about it So, we have to have a trial Then we deal with Hunter Give hiht?”

“Yeah,” Lance agreed

“Bring kids over to our side,” Zil said “It’ll be like, hey, Zil gave us justice and food”

“It will be the truth,” Turk said

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