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NO MORE Q’ESTIRIANS
It had been two weeks since Jessica had called for Blackwing by tapping her armband. She didn’t start drinking right away. She did have a drink most nights to help her sleep.
The time waiting was spent taking the hovercar to the Olympia Police Center for refueling. While there, usually waiting, she’d scrounge the local stores for any food or weapons she could find. I should move here, she thought. It would make it easier to avoid Trooper and his thugs. By doing so, would I be running and hiding from Trooper and those memories, hiding from the memories of Irv? Jessica shook her head to clear those thoughts and resumed her scavenging.
Once, Jessica took the hovercar to Naches. The city of Yakima issued a radio challenge. Jessica promptly ignored the challenge by le
