Chapter 30
A river of humanity pours towards the Arlington Memorial bridge, the closest avenue of escape out of Caliphate City. We stop to help the dead and dying. They grin. They weep. They ask if Allah will let them into paradise if they die?
"Any word on the Amish girls?" I call into the radio.
"No word on the prisoners, Sir," Staff-Sergeant Daksh says. "Lieutenant Everhart went to investigate. He said, if there was anyone inside, he doubts they made it out alive."
Her words kick me in the gut. I got my sister back, only to lose my surrogate family?
I stare at The Citadel which furiously fills the sky with smoke near the bombed out U.S. Capitol building. I can't think of any building I'd rather blow up. But Anke and Lissette? Joy, Charity, Hope and Grace? Could they really all be
