53. Getting it wrong

Panting the dogs sit in the dark while Chloe nimbly moves from one to the other cutting the wristbands’ cable ties quickly. She throws them in a cloth bag and then gathers the water bag and opens it anxiously and plunges the cloth bag into it. She binds up the water bag and puts it in her rucksack. She has now killed the signals here where the kombi stood. She hears the helicopter’s noise and she sees the reflection of the lights right above her through the tree tops. Probably a line of foot soldiers is closing in and with the dogs she jogs in an easterly direction. She must now run east to avoid the line of foot soldiers coming in from the northwest. She is sure the highway in the southeast is already cut off by soldiers and if she doesn’t hurry eastward far enough, the soldiers will encircle her and cut her off from both sides. She and her dogs must as quickly as possible get out of the area in front of the end of the line of the soldiers before they discover her. Darkness is her f