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Emergency Meeting
The first signs of them came in the sky. I’d know the sound of a drone fighter engine anywhere. And there they were, zipping low over the tree-line.
At first I thought they were there for us. We’d just blown up JPAC’s invisible lab complex, after all. But they zoomed straight overhead, into the distance.
Inge said they were gearing up for something.
It was a taste of things to come.
By the time we were back on the road, we were watching news footage of an announcement from a slick GEMA PR guy. He said the only way to deal with the infected population was ‘non-human contact’. That came in the shape of automated drone technology, developed, he said to lend aid to those in war torn areas. And support troops on the ground in battle zones.
Now they would be used to r
