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My people

Tick-tick-tick

Her hearing is co Ger, “Movement! More than before!”

Have the Krauts been reinforced already?

Geer and Cat have joined Jack, and the three of the the injured ankle to drag and bang along the ground

Strand is corieved tone

Tick-tick-tick

Now

Her grenades are fused for five seconds Two grenades, her last one and the one she took from Jack

Pull both pins Hold down the lever Run Throw

Five seconds to get away

Impossible!

“Shit,” Rio says under her breath, and races straight for the plane In through the open hatch, the only way, otherwise the grenades e

She runs and suddenly there are a half dozen Kraut soldiers ahead and they won’t be bluffed a second ti anything, but maybe it will slow them down—and now the plane and the hatch and suddenly she’s there

She releases the first lever and tosses the grenade into the darkness inside the plane The second follows half a second later