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THERE WAS A SHOUT.
While we weren’t looking, a couple of the Talavi prisoners had made a run for one of the vehicles. The Omi farmers chased after them, but they had already reached the truck.
The truck was moving before the door was even shut. They took off in the direction away from the oncoming convoy.
Meanwhile the dust clouds thrown up by the approaching convoy had come closer, and the three aircraft roared over the valley at low altitude.
“Come with me!” Olinu shouted.
Most of us piled into a vehicle. I got into the cabin with Olinu, and most of my team got in the tray at the back with the weapons.
Leisha and Anyu were taking the aircraft. I tossed up telling them not to move. Another aircraft might draw unwanted attention from these aggressive-looking craft. But one didn’t
