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Chi stepped off to one side and went along a path Yellow Teeth barked a co at a slow, steady pace Yellow Teeth hesitated This wasn't supposed to happen People were supposed to julance at Gamay to make sure she was sufficiently cowed to re in Spanish Chi stopped, but not before he stepped off the path into the grass, where he got down on his knees in a begging position, arh in the air

This was ry anirass, bringing the gun up so he could crush Chi's skull with the butt Then he vanished The flashlight sailed into the air, describing a long arc before it landed in the grass There was a yelp of surprise, a loud thud, silence

Chi retrieved the flashlight and directed the beaht down When Gamay approached he warned, "Be careful There's another hole just to your right"

Yellow Teeth had fallen through a circular hole and now lay at the bottom of a domeshaped chamber hite plaster walls

"Cisterns," Chi said "You sa hard it was to get a drink around here The city people used to store their water in these things I've uess he didn't see this" He fingered a thin orange ribbon tied to a bush

Are you going to just leave him?"

Chi looked off to where the fireflies were getting closes

"We don't have much choice You don't really care, do you?"

Ga hard climb from the wrote

"I wouldn'tive a daopher hole"

"We'll have to go toward the river It's the only way"

They sprinted for the woods

They'd been spotted Gunfire shattered the night

They ran faster

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