"Don't," he warned them, holding up his weary hand to restrain their insincere protests."Before you do anything, we brought someone else," Leanna hurr...edly explained, ushering two nervous women up to meet him. They looked at him anxiously, though one made a point to not look at his face until he told her to. "We met Leslie Cox and Valerie after you left, and we're pretty sure they are Seer and Seeker. We were hoping you could..."She stopped when Alex once again held his hand up, guzzling his. When I wrote Zacktelling him when I would arrive I had checked bus schedules and made myplans. I said nothing about it to Katie and Aunt Bridget, believing Iowed them nothing. I did not give notice at work for fear that AuntBridget would learn about it. I intended to just disappear.I sneaked out of the house one night after they had gone to bed andtook a taxi to the bus depot. There was an overnight bus that wouldtake me to Toronto. It would take a day and a half arriving in theearly morning. I. I'm going to take a nap.'Nope. You are going to teach us to shoot.''AAARRRGGGHHH!!!''He whimpers nicely.''He's a big baby.'I stirred my stumps.I found the crate with the Italian rifles.What?I didn't want to use the toy guns!Plastic and die cast?Reliable? Don't give me that.They rely on hot explosive gases to thump the bolt back. Besides, they're a bitch to clean. And they're too damn loud!I unbolted the crate, took out six BM 59's, 12 spare mags, 4 cleaning kits, the armorers kit and 10 or so. They looked her up and then down to her expensive gold sling back shoes. She looked more like she was off to the president's ball rather than fleeing the country."Miss undress please." What..." She was starting to sound repetitive. They said it again.Zoë shook her head repeating no over and over. The two men seemed unfazed and lit cigarettes the officer opening the door and looking out. He spoke to the guards then closed the door the noise of jostling passenger fading.."I've sent for transport..