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“Me, too,” Juan said “And I’ed”

“Luckily, it’s not the dry season, so the fire is already out,” Renee said “The land will recover, as it always does It’ll make quite the story around here for years to come”

Juan said his good-byes and watched Renee and Parsons walk toward the parking lot hand in hand

Juan headed to the tiltrotor, and as soon as he was on board, Gomez took off

Raven, Linc, and Eddie didn’t look dejected They were seething

“It’s ot MacD, Chair up on us”

“It’s no one’s fault except Polk’s,” Juan said “Let’s focus on getting MacD back Polk took hi to use MacD as a bargaining chip That means he’ll keep MacD alive at least a little while”

“Then we’ll have to act fast”

“Any idea where they’re taking him?” Eddie asked

“We’ll know soon enough When we do, we’ll need to come up with a way to rescue him”

“What about the antidote?” Linc asked “All the nuts were burned up in the fire If that deadline is correct about how quickly the antidote is needed, Murph and the others are running out of time”

“I think there’s still hope Jin and Polk had that antidote formula for a reason Maybe they et soht be pretty busy between now and New Year’s Eve”

Juan took a couple of sandwiches from a cooler and went to the cockpit He handed one to Gomez, who had already set the tiltrotor to autopilot

“Thanks, Chairotten airborne and in that Gulfstream’s way before it took off”

“Itthrough every place he goes, there’s no telling what he ht have done”