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The PRT agents were doing their best to control the crowds, but people were pushing forward to get into the vans. I had a feeling that people would close the doors to the vans leaving others outside if there weren't agents right there with guns.

As it was, they pushed to get into the vans, and agents had to put guns in people's faces to keep from crushing the people already in the vans.

All the vans were being loaded at the same time, and the people who were in the back of the crowd were visibly anxious. A little quick math showed that there were enough vans for 160 people and there were at least two hundred people who were trying to get on them. Forty people were going to be left behind. In addition, there were at least a hundred cars trying to get out of three exits. They were moving quickly, but all it would take was one person getting impatient, hitting the accelerator and crashing into the person in front of him to trap people in their cars.

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