CHAPTER 17AT 0203 SOMEONE CAME INTO the amphitheater. Matt didn’t need Brandon to tell him, the searchers didn’t attempt stealth. Didn’t need to, since anyone in here was trapped, right?
He and Brandon were already silent, had been mostly silent for hours. Now they were both tense—that kind of tense that came with practice, where your body was deceptively relaxed, ready to respond to anything.
Matt lay there under the digi-camo with Brandon, focusing his hearing. The amphitheater echoed like crazy, from the middle and outer edge, but strangely, where they hid each sound came from an obvious direction. For his personal sanity, Matt assumed it was the right direction.
The searchers started at the northern point and worked their way around the wall. Matt closed his eyes and tuned into his
