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- The large pillars blocked his view, but he saw on his motion tracker that Fred was behind a pillar down and to John's left, and Will behind the pillar to the right. There was no tag indicating Grace's location. There were, however, blurry motion
- contacts beyond the wide arched entrance to the temple.
- John clicked the COM once, a status query.
- The instant he did this, two Brutes wheeled from their cover on either side of the entrance archway. They held weapons with large-caliber muzzles and padded stocks, fixed with razor-edged blades.
- One of the Brutes saw John, aimed, and fired.
- John darted back behind the basalt pillar; he saw the flash and thunder of a grenade launched from the weapon-heard two more rounds fired immediately after that. The first grenade impacted on the opposite side of the pillar and exploded. The overpressure rattled his teeth.
- The Chief turned and dived, hoping to get behind the next stone column before the second and third grenades impacted and detonated on the pillar he had stood behind a split second before. The solid
- stone crumbled into fist-sized chunks. He skidded and scrambled for cover as the upper part of that
- column collapsed, raining stones that shattered the floor...and would have crushed him.-Chpt.34 pg.376
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