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McCready lifted his Silver Flux rifle and leaned out the side of the vehicle to take aim, then began blasting the sleepers to pieces. Loch turned the vehicle wide to try to pass around them, but the sleepers were too quick. The vehicle slammed into two of them with jarring force. Jayde was flung forward and almost bashed her head.
“Get us out of here!” she screamed.
Jayde unholstered her pistol and stood up, gripping the top of the vehicle with one hand and taking aim with the other. She fired off one shot and struck a sleeper in the neck. She growled in frustration. Her pistol only held a few rounds, and the jostling of the vehicle over the desert terrain wasn’t helping.
The two sleepers they had hit were barely affected and tried to claw themselves around to the side windows. Jayde
