Chapter 39
There is a rough, barely maintained road on the way up to the facility and each time we get bounced around in one of those trucks too! Still able to see her breath in the cold air, Emily followed at a safe distance behind Jack and Elizabeth. Each sound, from a crunch of gravel underfoot to the whispering wind overhead sounded even louder in the tense quiet.
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Your two drones, they are from the right side. However, Lydia's voice echoed gently in their ears.
Jack did not move, he said to cover. They stand by a craggy rock face watching the drones gliding past and the searchlights slicing through the dark.
Jack signaled for them to go on as the drone vanished over the ridge. Hurriedly, they walk faster as the clock is ticking away.
A small pocket with a faint phosphorescence
