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His phone lit

Hers didn’t

She gave it a little shake, said so under her breath

“The das never hen you—”

Zach held up his hand He was online, clicking fro until… Yes There So in CNN The reception on the news station was poor; whatever the anchor was saying was completely lost, but the text crawl at the bottom of the screen was clear

Powerful store reported froh Balti it will take to get the situation under control…

OK It was the weather And he believed it Two separate nations were involved If this had been an attack, they’d be sending out a very different kind of announcement

Still, there was always that faint element of doubt You didn’t survive wars in two of the world’sonto what his unit had always called survival cynicism

“Have you found so?”

He looked at the woman At Jaimie Wordlessly, he turned his iPhone toward her She read the crawl, read it again, then looked at him

“The storood I ht have been—”

He held up his hand again, turned away fro once and then a voice said, “Figured you’d call”

“Yes,” Zach said

“You can relax, dude Word just ca else”

“Thanks”