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get you inside. They’re waiting on you.” Another truck pulled up. Some type of military transport.
come from?” Holt told him. “Interesting.” He reached down with
didn’t have to touch her sister’s forehead to feel the heat.
screams of people, desperate
sickening crack, his forearm snapped, the bone splintered
Raina’s forearm with an alcohol swab. Raina turned away and
dealing with a sick little girl. Over her headphones, the pilot said, “On approach to McChord. Prepare for landing. East field.” “Lewis–McChord Air Force Base?” Harbin said, turning toward one of the windows. Martha glanced out too and watched as the pilot maneuvered over one of the runways and began following it toward the opposite end of the airfield and a group of hangars. When Tennant let out a soft whimper, Martha took her hand. “It’s okay. We’ll be on the ground soon.” The skin of Tennant’s fingers and palm felt rough, callused. She had the hands of a manual laborer beyond her years.
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soldiers were on the floor in the hallway—one on his back, the
watch, so if you
laptop above it in the dirt, it might have been
out his headset for the
looked like he was sleepwalking.
without Holt to press
cochlear implant. You don’t hear that? Like a hum.” This
in his body tensed and he twisted to the right and back again, his bloody finger digging impossibly deep in his ear. “We’re all waiting for him.”
hearing aid against the black plastic.
