Brendan swore and hit the dirt as the ground bucked beneath his feet with that first impact.\u00a0 He rolled onto his back just in time to see unmarked fighters of unknown extraction screaming above him, chased by a pair of Foundation fighters hot on their tails.\u00a0 He spat out mud and cursed.<\/p>\n
Calm down.\u00a0 You didn\u2019t see this shit in her visions, did you?\u00a0 No.\u00a0 That means this is unexpected.<\/i><\/p>\n
It also means that we really couldn\u2019t predict it.<\/i>\u00a0 He rolled to his feet and after a few stumbling steps was moving at nearer to top speed again, not wasting the breath to give voice to the litany of curses that echoed inside of his skull.<\/p>\n
Who the <\/i>hell is attacking us?<\/i><\/p>\n
Doesn\u2019t matter.\u00a0 You need to find Winston and you need to find him now.<\/i><\/p>\n
The ground shuddered again as another set of bombers made another run, another pass.\u00a0 The reports of the Foundation fighters\u2019 gattlings echoed even at a distance and Brendan shivered.\u00a0 The rounds would chew through just about anything.\u00a0 He knew.\u00a0 He\u2019d seen the weapons tests.<\/p>\n
The vineyard was within sight, now, but he saw nothing, saw no one.\u00a0 It was achingly empty.<\/p>\n
What if I was wrong?\u00a0 What if they\u2019re not out here, what if they went another way?<\/i><\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 What if\u2026<\/i><\/p>\n
He swore viciously and kept running.\u00a0 No, they must\u2019ve come this way.\u00a0 Maybe they\u2019ve already made it to safety.<\/i><\/p>\n
It was a nice thought.<\/p>\n
Brendan could no longer keep track of where the bombs were falling, where the ships were above his head.\u00a0 All he could hear was the sound of his heart pounding in his ears as he pitched toward the shelter at Gabe\u2019s caf\u00e9.<\/p>\n
Then the sight of a bomber spiraling to the ground eclipsed his view of the world ahead of him and he stopped knowing anything at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Brendan swore and hit the dirt as the ground bucked beneath his feet with that first impact.\u00a0 He rolled onto his back just in time to see unmarked fighters of unknown extraction screaming above him, chased by a pair of … Continue reading