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- “Hey,” she said. “Does this spell stop radar?”
- “Uh,” I said. I was already holding on to a veil and driving faster than was strictly safe, and my attention can only split so many ways. “Not mine. Molly’s will stop almost everything, but I only bother with visible light becau—”
- Murphy reached over while I was still talking and pushed down on my right knee, hard, pressing the accelerator flat again. “Faster.”
- I gave her an annoyed look and then did it. The old engine gave a game growl and we gathered speed going down the on-ramp, rapidly reaching speeds that would preclude any chance of getting off with a warning.
- I checked the rearview mirror in time to see our entourage come barreling onto the entry ramp behind us—
- —just as my more-or-less-invisible car passed a pair of highway patrol vehicles poised on the side of the ramp, watching for speeders to come sailing under the bridge.
- I had a chance to see both highway patrol officers come to attention behind the wheel, their eyes on their radar-gun readouts, then switching to the apparently empty road—and both men locked eyes on our pursuers, the only apparent visible source of the readings on their instruments.
- I flashed by them and just had time to see their bubs coming on before they vanished into the obscurement generated by my veil.
- “Oh,” I said to Murphy in admiration. “That’s just mean.”
- “Right?” she asked me, smiling. She patted my leg and said, “Good job following directions.”
- Which was another way to say, Thank you for trusting me.
- Peace Talks Chapter 23, Page 222-223
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