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Raven pulled to a stop next to the abandoned fire truck, juer side She pulled open the door, and her heart sank when she saw the interior
Beth was gone Only then did Raven notice the trail of blood leading toward the helicopter’s landing zone
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To get a good view of the dock where the cargo fro unloaded, Juan and Linc had crept uphill through the jungle and crouched behind a tree where Juan could watch through a pair of binoculars There was sodock area that they were in no danger of being heard, but the cloud of buzzing mosquitoes around their heads was almost as loud as the men below
“I’reasepaint repellent,” Linc whispered as he swatted one of the flying menaces away from his face “I swear, I’ve seen smaller vampire bats”
Juan nodded in agreeistered as private aircraft I think I saw a tail number on one of them”
“At least it’s probably worse for those guys The ones that are just standing around look miserable”
Juan counted uard were constantly s their arms and necks The oil platfor nonstop lowering cargo over the side, where three forklifts took turns hauling the palletized cargo toward fifteen waiting trucks idling on the road, which dead-ended at a shteen-wheeled trailers, the trucks were the three-axle types, which were better for navigating narrow mountain roads Powerful portable lamps had been set up on the dock, but the only other illuhts on the trucks and forklifts
They had already filled six trucks with crates big enough to hold dishwashers Two st the trucks, but theup to the dock They didn’t seele
“See anyone familiar?”
Juan had been hoping Locsin was supervising this operation personally, but, so far, he was nowhere to be seen Juan adjusted his binoculars and focused on awildly and shouting orders He recognized the man immediately
“That’s Tagaan,” he said, handing the binoculars to Linc “The one waving his ar a seizure”
“Got hi to explode every time he yells That’s the one who tried to turn the PIG into Swiss cheese, right?”
“Before I shot him out of the sky and he walked away from the crash without even a limp”
“I guess we should assume everyone down there has the same mutant powers”