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Josh wiped the sweat from his brow and took a drink from his canteen. His gaze swept the high walls of the canyon. It had taken them almost an hour to get to the bottom of the first layer of canyons.
“Hutu said there would be shallow springs or a water source located inside the various caves that dot the area,” Cassa said as she sat down next to him on a low rock.
“How much further to the signal?” Josh asked, glancing at the scanner in Cassa’s hand.
Cassa handed it to him. “Just over a kilometer, but that doesn’t mean much in this area. It is good that the frequency of the signal changed after it landed. Hopefully, General Landais won’t be aware of that. All he has is the initial signal that he was tracking,” she replied with a tired sigh.
Josh shifted the scanner to his other hand
