Chapter Forty
Prague Hlavni station, Praha 2
Aviary rushed down the escalator.
She hit the ground floor running and took a sharp right to the station lobby. Through the glass doors ahead, she couldn’t see any movement—no Damien, no operatives—but she could hear an approaching engine.
She sprinted around the balustrade and reached the doors.
Now she could see a Marauder pulling up in the middle of the road, alongside the one Damien must have stolen. Soldiers in black poured out of it, all armed.
Blue Berets.
Aviary hid behind the doors, catching her breath. How could she save Damien by herself, against a squad of the Fifth Column’s Blue Berets?
She punched a command on her smartwatch, then elbowed a door open, stepping through.
This better work.
The street was quiet except for the
