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Emily Beale landed the Vengeance softly beside Viper and dropped the four D-boys barely a mile from the compound. They slid in behind a tall but completely decrepit barn that should mask the noise of their landing from the target.
The new rotors let them get far closer than she would normally risk. Still she’d rather have landed farther out, but there was too much flying time and not enough ground time in the mission profile so they had to keep moving fast. Five hours back-and-forth across Poland, half an hour refueling time each way. With four hours flying time over Ukraine, which left them only three hours of time to complete the mission itself. They had only one night to pull this off.
She settled in to wait for the signal to come forward. Aleksander Stepanov’s information and sat
