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“Get down on the ground, now!”

Arun to the ground He wrapped his powerful ar toddler, to face Dekka

“Listen to eant, I realize what I look like,” Dekka said “I realize what you probably think of me But I am here to put a stop to this bullshit, and from the look of it you could use some help”

“Let e you with—”

“Da off the roof!”

Areant but stayed ready

Dekka et that you don’t knohat to do, but the fact is I can kill everyone on this floor—you, your officers, the people, everyone I can reduce theets”

The sergeant wasn’t entirely sure one way or the other, so Dekka glanced around, spotted a corner of the floor with a dozen slot machines and no people nearby She raised her hands as if in benediction, opened her er’s roar, and the entire area—the slot , the chairs, even the carpet on the floor—beca wild chaos

Dekka lowered her hand, and the shredded reer-carpeted concrete floor

“See?” she de on here?”

Over in the sports-betting area the huge screens that usually broadcast horse races noed the exterior of the Venetian A second policeman stood on the precipice of the tower

The second policeman jumped Just like the first No hesitation, no dra fall

“He can eant blurted “They do whatever he tells them, and they don’t stop We’ve cut off the phones to the suite he’s in, and we’ve handed out ear coverings to our SWAT guys, but he’s surrounded himself with staff and tourists and even so our way past innocent people”

Dekka nodded, as if this was the sort of thing she heard every day: so badly It was a story she’d heard too many times in the FAYZ

“Get us ear covering,” Dekka said “And ill take hi to shoot innocent people”