Chapter Twenty-Nine

INTERIM PROGRESS RERPOT: OPERATIVE EXITS COMPOUND…OPEN SECURITY GATES…PRIME EXPLOSIVE DEVICES…AFFIRMATIVE…TIMER SET…ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY SECONDS UNTIL DETONATION…

No sooner had I reached the ridge behind Sector Four than a huge cloud of volcanic orange flame erupted. I slammed on the breaks. The earth shook, groaned, reverberated, the vehicle pitched from side to side, rocks were tossed high into the air, great mounds of earth and sand hit the windshield. For the second time, the compound had been blown sky high.

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Extract Taken from Ransome's Journal

And so we come to the decisive moment. In bed that night, after my deeply troubling conversation with Zaragoza, I told Angelica everything. I told her about his plans for our baby; how the child would be taken from her as soon as it was born.