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The major sent out the two Little Bird helicopters to extract them from the twilit jungle.
Or to at least move around the pieces on the board.
Drake could only smile as Nikita kept griping about not going with Commander Altman, but it was clear that her place had to be at Drake’s side. Besides, if ever there was a one-man army for a special assignment, Drake knew that Luke Altman was it.
Then their Little Bird, nearly as silent as the night birds whose calls filled the forest, set him and Nikita down on the road a half kilometer outside El Carbón. He enjoyed the stroll through the descending darkness with Nikita. It was easy to imagine walking like this with her, making it a regular part of what they did together, talking about not much of anything.
He told her about his big sister
