"'cause if it doesn't work, the others will be," he paused, searching for the proper word, "...well they‘ll be disappointed.""So?""You can see it," James waved around him to where the others had been sitting earlier, "Avery's consumed more alcohol in the past two days that I have in the past two weeks! Suchong just sits around-""He alway...

"You don't remember?" James asked.Jada shook her head."Well, you were going in and out of consciousness, so-""Heps bushwhacked us." Avery growled, "The assholes."Jada thought for a moment, "I think I remember a building."James nodded, "That would be the ruins of Lebanon. We were skirting the edge of it, when the heps ambushed us."Suchong ...

Jada looked over at the man next to her, he had blood tricking down his face from where a bullet grazed his skull. His t-shirt, once white with an orange county logo on it, was now splattered with dirt, blood and what looked like gasoline. His pants were torn, and there was a nasty scrape on his left leg. But he ignored it, ignored the pain in his head and leg just like he ignored his fear of dyin...