“Very good, Agent Hunter,” the colonel. “I give it ten minutes before you’re overrun.”
“I only need five,” Jack said. “Everybody, drop your weapons and move out into the hallway! Let’s go!”
Nobody moved.
“Keli…”
Even knowing what to expect, it startled him when one of the armoured men drew his sidearm and pressed the gun against the side of his helmet. His finger curled around the trigger, ready to blow a hole in his own head.
The sound of hushed voices told Jack that Keli’s little demonstration had had an effect. Of course, she couldn’t exert such control over thirty individual minds, but these people didn’t know that. “Let us leave peacefully,” Jack said, “or die here. Your choice, but I’m all out of patience.”
With that, the security officers abandoned their weapons and shuffled o
