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"Thank God you got here when you did," said Shannon with a shiver

"I deeply regret I was too late to save Doc Miller"

"Where have they taken hiers

"I stopped the scu of the body just outside the te above the steps"

Giordino gazed at Pitt, inspecting hi the multitude of cuts and scratches on his friend's face and ar a man as all but dead on his feet "You look like you just finished a triathlon and then fell on a roll of barbed wire As your resident medicine man, I recommend a few hours rest before we hike back to the sinkhole campsite"

"I look worse than I feel," Pitt said cheerfully "Tis first Me, I don't have the slightest inclination to play Tarzan again I'ht out of here"

"Madness," le and he goes flaky"

"Do you really think we can fly out of here?" inquired Shannon skeptically

"Absolutely," Pitt said "In fact I guarantee it"

Rodgers stared at him "Only a helicopter could come in and out of the valley"

Pitt grinned "I wouldn't have it any other way How else do you think Aoods to a coastal port for shipment out of the country? That calls for a communications system, so there must be a radio around we can appropriate to send out a call for help"

Giordino gave an approving nod "Makes sense, providing we can find it A portable radio could be hidden anywhere in one of the surrounding ruins We could spend days looking for it"

Pitt stared down at Amaru, his face expressionless "He knohere it is"

Aht off the pain and stared back at Pitt with black h clenched teeth

"Forgive me if I don't take you at your word Where do you keep it?"