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The hole in the wall isn’t all they’d have liked It is not a doorway, just a hole barely big enough to crawl through Rio points her rifle into the dark hole and fires off a whole clip, eight rounds No response

Rio sticks her head through the hole, calls for Jenou to hand her a flashlight, and points the beam around

“Looks like the entrance to an apart,” Rio reports “Stairs and h

A tiny, wiry-haired dog stands its ground and barks furiously at her “Hey, boy, relax They should name you Lucky, pooch I could have shot you”

Jenou fishes a bit of cracker fro eats it greedily and iain

“Ingrate”

They repeat the process six more times Souishable Other times there’s a full second between Rio wonders what the Kraut sniper can possibly beof all this

But at last they reach a looted grocer’s, every shelf eed hole where the store’s fronthad once been she can cautiously look out and see a doorway into the sniper’s lair

“Cat,” Rio calls

“She found another toilet,” Jenou says

“Okay, then you go back and tell Stick we’ve got a ten-foot gap between this spot and that door” She points

Jenou runs off, and Cat returns looking both e it”

“I didn’t say anything”

They wait in the dusty silence of the eerily vacant shop

“Suarez, man,” Cat says “That’s FUBAR”