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“I’ve got her, just make a space Make a space!”

“Tina? Just relax and stay with us, okay? You’ll be fine! Mark, I need a syringe with a needle!”

“What kind, mom?”

“Doesn’t matter; I have to try to suck out some of the air from her wound”

“Suck out… the air?”

“Just get a syringe and needle! And soht over here; Jacob, you do that Get so!”

“Dianne, I’s to make sure there aren’t any surprises here”

“Good thinking, Jason We’ll hold it down here Sarah, you got a hold on her arm? I need to cut off her shirt”

Jason took a few steps back, watching in the dimly lit interior of the house as his wife and friend worked on a body lying on the table Tina was still alive, but the bumpy ride back ho bubble-filled blood froes of the duct tape that had been hastily applied

Hoping that Tina wouldrooh the entire house He checked in each and every nook and cranny that was large enough to conceal a person, just on the off chance that one of the gang had hung around and aiting in ambush With the house checked and cleared, Jasona wary eye at the burned section of the porch

Out at the edge of the woods, just beyond the driveway, he could make out the forms of the men he and Mark had slain In toowith the corpses before, they had stripped them of their weapons and thrown them beyond the driveway They were all still there,

just as they had been previously, and Jason nodded grimly and whispered to himself as he added up the bodies “Guess no one showed up to try and help you fellas”

The rest of the property was as quiet as the front yard, aside fro cooped up for so long Jason slung his rifle on his shoulder and distributed feed to the his nose at the s to help clean out the

With the outbuildings checked and cleared and the edge of the property looking clear, too, Jason made his way to the s down into the tunnel Rifle and flashlight in hand, he made his way down the tunnel until he reached the barred doors that led up into the base, but he eventually freed the doors and swung thee into the basement of the house

“Mr Statler!” Mark cried out froripped between two nervously shaking hands “I didn’t know you were coht you were one of the”