everything and everyone at once. But police routes? EMTs? Maintenance crews? PRT vehicles? Eay Peasy. Lines of dots, marked in red to denote PRT forces, began inching their way across the digital map. “They''re probably making a beelione for the nearest hospital--” Lisa started to say.


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    the Queen card is never on the table in the first place. Tagg was already three steps ahead. It''s all a trap!”


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    freaking grove of trees came running out of a nearby alley and SLAMMED, bodily, into all three vehicles. Troopers yelled in alarm as they were knocked about inside the vehicles. Both roof gunners on the fore and aft vehicles were nearly dislodged from their seats. The tree-men wrapped their flailing limbs around the vehicles, trapping the men inside. Thick woody vines erupted from the pavement,coiling with lightning speed over the wheels and doors and the mounted ma deuces. The groaning of strained, crumpling metal was deafening.