Enhanced Smell

“They’re heading for the cafeteria,” I said grimly.

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“I can smell explosives,” I said. “Shit.”

“What?”

“I can smell white phosphorous,” I said. “There’s Tinkertech that uses small quantities of it, the same with some explosive compounds. If they’re planning to use white phosphorous, I can’t imagine that it’s going to be good news for anybody.”

It was very small quantities that I’d smelled. Phosphorous was extremely toxic, and it would cause chemical burns that burned to the bone. I was more concerned with some of the other explosives I was smelling. It was possible that these people intended to bring the whole building down. It wasn’t that easy to do without either a lot of explosives, more than twelve men could carry, or very carefully placed explosives, but if they had access to Tinkertech, anything was possible.

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Intruders