The NCA is giving no quarter even now to the local populace. Anyone who hasn’t already been turned demonic is being slaughtered wholesale now. That ...ncludes the handful of human politicians left running things in that country. They’re not even trying to hide what they’re doing, either. Open, wanton butchery,” Anna Kendrick showed me the scenes of sheer, bloody mayhem in that capital that had been leaked out of it.“In all of my years of journalism, I’ve never witnessed carnage on that scale. "Yeah, it was."She hit me with the teddy bear."Did you stay here all night?" No," she said. "I went home, and tried to sleep. But I was too worried about you, so I tossed and I turned..." Shaking her head, she added. "Finally, I drove back out here. You were in there for 13 hours, you know." Long time," I said.She nodded. "Long for me. You got to sleep through it."I yawned. "Not much of a sleep. So who's your friend?"She looked down at the bear in her lap, and made a face. "Oh, it was waiting. Claire began straightening up the wagon and checking to see what was missing and had to be replaced.I sat numbly by Louise hoping she'd wake up. Elizabeth returned from the trading post and grasped my hand. Together we waited. An hour went by, then two, and finally I saw a movement. "Louise!" I cried.With a fluttering of her eyelids and a rasping cough, Louise started moving looking for somewhere to throw up. I turned her head and she vomited up the water she had swallowed while her head was. "We didn't know this was going on, we can leave if you want." Ain't no body goin' no place. You seen what here." Ty, Jerrome and Marcus looked at each other."Everything's cool, with us, really," Ty replied questioning his decision to come here in the first place."You're Tyrome Jackson, right?" one of the armed men sitting on the couch asked, looking over the top of his shades."Yea, that's me," he quickly responded thankful that someone recognized him. A major drug operation like this wouldn't.