Chapter 27
W E DRESSED UP in dark flight suits with full armor, and both Ned and I had MP5s. You could never predict too much about a night assault, but especially this one, with SWAT types on the inside and HRT as the force coming to get them.
Ned got a message on his headset, and he turned to me. “Here we go, Alex. Keep your head down, buddy. These guys are as good as we are.”
“You do the same.”
But then the unexpected happened. And this time, it wasn’t such a bad thing.
The front door to the building opened. For a few seconds, there was no activity at the door. What was going on in there?
Then an elderly woman dressed in a lab smock wandered out into the bright lights aimed at the building. She held her hands up high and kept saying, “Don’t shoot me.”
She was followed by more women in lab coats, young and old, as well as two boys who looked to be twelve or thirteen at the most.
People behind the barricades were screaming out names. They were weeping for joy, clapping wildly.
Then the front door slammed shut again.
The exodus was over.