“How…How did they get to me so fast? Doctor Ross and his crew that looked like EMS?” Don’s lips tightened under his bearded face and his brow wrinkled in worry. “I don’t know Violet. I’m sorry. But with enough resources, I’m sure Ross and DIB can pull off more than we know.”

“Play it again,” Dr. Ross said through gritted teeth as he hovered over the security panel screens of the dark room. Violet crouched in the hall as he and the guards approached from around the corner. First, she was there, and just as they turned the corner, she vanished from sight. “No electromagnetic glitch in ...

“DIB less than ten miles southeast. Twelve of them, though more following behind no doubt,” Ella reported at the mouth of the latest pine they made their hideout as they moved. Her face wrinkled with worry as she wrung her hands, which still passed through each other. “They have heat sensors. They found remnants of ...

The biggest driftwood log I could manage to roll into the whitewater river now bobbed in and out of the rapids—with me clutching to the top of it. I gripped the makeshift handles I chiseled out with sharp stones. My bare feet and hands had long since gone numb and locked up, though I was ...