Chapter Twelve
Garden on the Ramparts, Praha 1
Keeping low, Xiu jumped over the half-wall behind the vehicle.
Jay collapsed against the sedan’s wheel, his eyes barely open and fingers loose around his pistol grip. He was hidden from the passing Purity patrol, but the car offered no protection from gunfire.
With Nasira slumped over in the back seat, that left only Sophia out in the open. Sophia crawled across the ground, behind the vehicle—in full view of the Purity soldiers—then stopped and rolled onto her side.
Have they seen her?
Xiu’s modified Vector was loaded with armor-piercing rounds capable of punching through the patrol’s body armor and helmets, but with odds of six to one, she didn’t like being forced into an engagement.
She peered over the wall. The soldiers were moving i
