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immediate concern?”
    â€œYou,” Mikil said. “You’re dead in France. And Monique.”
    â€œYou’re suggesting we write them back to life?”
    â€œWhy not?” Mikil asked.
    â€œIsn’t that a bit complicated? It seems a bit much. Absurd maybe.”
    â€œAbsurd?” Ronin said. “As opposed to the rest of this, which is supposed to make perfect sense?”
    â€œWrite it,” Thomas said.
    Mikil’s hand hovered above the blank page. “Once upon a time, Thomas came back to life?”
    â€œMore detail.”
    â€œI don’t think I can do this. What detail? I don’t even know what you were wearing.”
    â€œWrite this,” Thomas said. He glanced at her hand, which hadn’t moved. “Ready?”
    â€œOkay.” She lowered her hand.
    â€œThomas Hunter, the man who first learned of the Raison Strain’s threat, the same man who was shot in the head—”
    â€œHold on.” Mikil touched the charcoal stick to the page. If she wasn’t mistaken, a slight heat rode up her fingers. Then again, her nerves were firing hot. She wrote his words verbatim.
    â€œOkay.”
    Thomas continued. “The same man who was shot in the head, was killed in France by a bullet to the head. Period. But on the third day he came back to life . . . No, forget that. This instead: But at a time when his body was unattended by any of his enemies, he came back to life. The end.”
    She lifted the stick. “The end? What about Monique?”
    â€œNew paragraph. At about the same time that Thomas Hunter came back to life, Monique de Raison found herself in good health and fully able to continue her search for an antivirus in the United States of America. The end.”
    Johan sighed. “Honestly, these don’t sound like stories to me.” He looked in the direction William had gone. “This whole thing seems a bit ridiculous in the face of our predicament. Can I suggest we reach . . .”
    Johan stopped. His face lightened a shade. Mikil looked at the others who had honed in on Johan’s reaction. He was listening.
    Then she heard it. The faint thunder of hooves. On the cliffs.
    The Horde!
    â€œMove!” Thomas snapped. “Into the tunnel!”

5
    T homas snatched up the Book and shoved it into his belt as he ran for the tents. Justin had shown his face to him. Then Kara through Mikil. And now the Horde was attacking.
    Now I will show you my heart.
    In moments they had caught up to William. “Mikil, Johan, get Samuel and Marie into the tunnel with the others! William, the east canyon with me. Five men.”
    They’d selected this particular wash five days earlier not only for its proximity to the red pool, but because of a hidden passage under two huge boulders in the eastern canyon. The route was almost impossible to see without standing directly in front of it. With any luck the Horde would expect them to take one of the two more obvious escape routes.
    How had the Scabs managed to pass their sentries on the cliffs undetected?
    The first arrow clipped the rock face on Thomas’s left before he reached the tents. He glanced over his shoulder. Mounted archers. Fifty at least.
    â€œAhead,” Mikil shouted. “They’ve cut off the eastern canyon!”
    Cries of alarm sounded throughout the camp. Women ran for their children. The men were already running toward the corral. There was no time to collect dishes or food or clothing. They would do well enough to escape with their lives.
    â€œWilliam?”
    â€œYou want only five?” his lieutenant demanded. “The Scabs might not follow us.”
    They would be the diversion. Under other circumstances he would take at least ten, enough to raise enough dust to draw a pursuit while the others slipped away through the hidden escape route. But Thomas knew that, today, whoever was part of the diversion might not escape.
    â€œOnly five,” he

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