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Figaro looked around the group. He examined each of the faces until he stopped at Trevor's. "You!" he said.
"What?"
"You must have had something to do with the escape. They had something to cut their ropes!"
"I searched all of them!" Trevor said calmly.
"No you didn't." Shadow said, "You didn't search the boy."
Trevor looked around frightened when he saw Figaro approach. There seemed to be no way out. Neither Ivana nor Mormont was going to help him. All he could do was run... but where?
Trevor turned around and started running. Before him he saw the trees. Maybe he'd make it. They didn't seem to be following him. Of course, why would they? The planet would handle him within an hour if his calculations had been correct.

"Split up." Mormont said.
"What?"
"We each go searching for hostages and rendezvous in 45 minutes at the shuttle."
"You're kidding!" Ivana said.
"You heard the mistress."
"But 45 minutes is nothing. how are we supposed to find them?" Figaro said.
"They'll be headed for our and their shuttles to get away. Ivana, you go after Trevor, Figaro you come with me."
"But I want to go after Trevor!" Figaro hissed in anger
"Oh alright! You go after Trevor. Ivana, you go to our shuttle, I will go to theirs."
Shadow watched as the two others left. He had no intention of going to their shuttle. Let them get away. That was what Cerces had wanted. He had other things to do.
Cerces had taken the advice. If he got back to earth he would catch her trying to get away from the police swarming the building. The dead guard should have been found by the day crew by now. Cerces wouldn't know what had hit her. Even if he didn't get her, she would be found with the prototype and an unregistered Telp. Solit would be his for the taking.
Shadow held up his sleeve and opened the hidden pocket with his own Telp. No-one, not even Cerces knew of this device. It hadn't been made on Earth, nor had it been compiled with the likely parts. Shadow had had it made out of scrap metal and the simplest of equipment. 

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"Are we close?" Raven asked.
"We should be." Liv answered, "I recognise the scenery."
"Yeah. We passed that tree right after the landing. Ponte did an act, remember?"
Liv smiled. She remembered. She only hoped the three of them were still ok. She had only taken one trip with the crew and already she liked Mechs and Stevan as brothers. Ponte she had only known briefly and though she didn't much like his flamboyant way of behaving he did make her smile. Something that could really make a trip through space bearable.
"This is the spot!" Xander said.
"There is no-one here." Raven answered. 
There was no sound but the wind, no movement but the trees. 
"Someone was here not long ago." Raven continued looking at the footprints in the tall grass.

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