WARNING: Restricted Area Use of deadly force authorized. Some kind of government facility, he thought, like the kind he’d found Ank in. He hustled forward with only the moonlight to guide him, picking his way as quickly as he could through the rubble; for there was indeed a building, a building which had suffered the same fate as so many others in the quake-rocked wake of the Flashback: a building which was covered in moss and creeper vines and partially collapsed. And as he did so he heard the raptors grunting and sprinting across the steppes, having the feeling, he was sure, that their quarry had at last cornered itself in an inescapable kill-box. Nor did he doubt that they were correct in that assessment. And yet to his surprise he found a door straight away, a door which by some mir

