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“Knohat?” Amos said

It was Clarissa that answered “If that was the last one Or if the hits are going to keep on co”

In the silence that cauard, prisoner, and civilian They were just three people in a room

The moment passed

“I’ll be back with an update as soon as I have one, sir”

Ah all the scenarios that came easy and didn’t seeor nothing, but that screen over there catch newsfeeds?”

“Prisoners only get access in the common area”

“Sure,” Aht?”

The woed She took out her hand terray screen flickered to life A pale man with broad, soft lips was in the middle of his report

“— undetected by the radar arrays, we are getting reports that there was a temperature anomaly that may have been related to the attack”

The guard nodded to him and closed the door He couldn’t hear it lock, but he was pretty sure it had He sat back in his chair and propped his heels on the side of the hospital bed Clarissa sat forward, her bone-thin hands knotted together The feed switched over to a white-hairedto conclusions

“Do you knohere the first one hit?” Clarissa asked “Do you re from the news?”

“I wasn’t paying attention I think they said Krakatoa? Is that a place?”

Clarissa closed her eyes If anything, she went a little paler “Not exactly It’s a volcano that blew itself up a long, long tihty kilometers up Shock waves went around the world seven times”

“But it’s not North Africa?”