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Vicki and Gabrielle gestured to the map unrolled on the table as they briefed the team leads.
“We will arrive about a mile out from the facility,” Vicki said, “and move out as units. The goal is to make contact with the facility’s staff and inform them they are the target of an impending raid for their children. Our hope is that they welcome us into the facility so we can fortify it and prepare a defense, but if they refuse, we’ll set up in the forest just beyond their property line.”
“What about whoever owns the property bordering the facility?” a cougar shifter team leader asked. “We’ll be trespassing.”
Gabrielle gave him a flat look. “We’re shifters, and most of us are hunters on top of that. If you get caught in the woods, I’ll send you back to school with the young.”
“Yeah, I
