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“Fantastic,” Hali said

“What is?” Belasco asked

“We’re on schedule to be picked up,” he said No need to scare her even further “But, prepare to hold on if I need to roll quickly”

“Why? Wait awith her free hand at the dots that were approaching “What are those?”

“Drones”

“That can’t be good”

“It’s not”

MacD came up next to hi in formation “Got a plan?”

They were still half a ht hundred feet in altitude

“When the drones get close, we’ll split and dive You go right I’ll go left We’ll descend in a spiral pattern, whichflown manually”

Hali didn’t have to add that they were toast if the drones had auto systems He knew Gomez had that kind of software in his drones, but he didn’t know if Ferreira’s were similarly outfitted

When the drones ithin a hundred yards, one of the back

“Theythem,” Hali said “Otherwise, they’d attack all at once”

How Hali wished they had a shotgun Pistols were useless against such sets

“Tell me when to break,” MacD said