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“Ah’ve been a hunter all my life,” he said with a cockeyed sh a hurricane”

Raven shrugged MacD was always saying stuff like that Not being a hunter herself, she couldn’t tell if he was right She’d grown up on military bases, and then worked in the Military Police after joining the Ar clues of a different kind But one of the things she’d learned since being added to the Oregon creas that her new colleagues were experts in their fields If MacD said the wo behind a tree a hundred yards away, Raven accepted it without question

“Let me talk to her,” she said “I don’t think your kind of charator, one of Raven’s specialties was talking to people and gaining their trust

“Whatever you say,” MacD said “But Ah’ to keep an eye on you” He raised the crossbow

“Keep an eye on unshots may have draanted attention”

He nodded, and she crept forward

She went fifty yards and stopped, still far out of range of a person not trained in how to use a handgun

“Miss,” she called out “My name is Raven Malloy My team and I aren’t here to hurt you”

There was no response, but now Raven could see a little bit of a black ju behind a palm tree

“I know you’re scared I would be, too We know that you’ve been stuck on this island for a long time We saw the plane But you’ll be safer with us than you would be with the friends of that man as about to kill you”

“Stay away!” the woman called back “I know about Bedtime!”

Raven moved a little closer “I don’t knohat that means We want to help you”

“You’re here to kill us all!”

“We don’t want to kill anyone”

“You killed that guard”