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Theyto the speed li up They threaded their h stopped cars and then they heard a collective oh, my God! from a hundred mouths at once, a crowd that stared upward, with hands over mouths in expressions of fear

Dekka and Arers and sahat appeared to be a unifore of the Venetian’s version of St Mark’s tower The tower stood nearly five hundred feet tall

The policeman stood there for a moment and then

Screams!

The drop seemed to take forever Theinto a swi pool feet first

He fell and fell and struck a decorative concrete railing There was a sickeningly loud sound, a spray of blood, and the body blessedly fell out of view

Dekka, appalled, looked at Armo His face was stone He said, “Yeah,” which was all Dekka needed to ride her bike up onto the crowded sidewalk, stick the key in her pocket, and begin to morph

CHAPTER 11

It’s Only Pain

“JEEZ, SHADE, THAT car must be worth a fortune!” Cruz said

“Well, if we’re riding into battle we should ride comfortably,” Shade said

Pals hadso fast that would carry the three of thehinis and Ferraris—but that wasn’t too much trouble, and Shade had rolled up in a Bentley convertible that was rated at two hundredwhile in hway Patrol had on the road Though not everything they had in the air, which was one advantage to a convertible: you could see a helicopter overhead

And the Bentley was very comfortable Leather as soft as a baby’s cheek It was a 425-le Maps assu somewhere close to the speed limit

Unfortunately, the reality of driving two hundred miles an hour for two-plus hours was that the wind utterly defeated the car’s clever wind-reducing technology and left Cruz in the front and Malik in the back crouching do to avoid flapping cheeks and stinging hair

The CHP picked theh Bakersfield, but their cruisers couldn’t keep up So siren-wailing CHP would pick them up briefly on the 5, fall behind, and be replaced by hastily assembled roadblocks, which the Bentley would easily evade by driving onto the dividing strip A hundred miles north of Bakersfield, the CHP helicopters were on theht stretches of the world’sfreeway, even they could barely keep pace