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It was a lost cause The men made their rounds with all the enthusiasuards

One guard as lucky enough to avoid the long, boring walks found hi radar

So far, not a single i that when a couple of targets did appear for a uard didn’t see theht off the need for sleep

The ies vanished quickly and then appeared for the second tional lines were drawn to the uard becaets, the return had disappeared again, replaced by a pop-up box that read contact lost

The guard straightened in his seat

A wave of suspicion flowed through him

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p; Had he just seen soone? How had it disappeared? The thought of Ah his head

He looked out theinto the darkness, saw nothing and then returned his eyes to the set

When the targets failed to reappear, he grew even more suspicious

He grabbed a pair of large binoculars and stepped out onto the observation wing Trying to focus in thePartly because he spentthe sky for aircraft or helicopters, but also because, even powered down for the night, the lights frolow out into the hts impossible to see Had he looked directly toward the five ba but the white veil of the mist

Frustrated, he went back to the radar and crouched over it, watching it closely like a cat guarding a hole in the here a mouse lives

CHAPTER 52

AS KURT APPROACHED THE COLOSSAL ISLAND OF AQUA-Terra with his fleet of matchstick rafts, it loomed out of thean elephant

“It is gigantic,” Tautog said