65 Holly didn’t waste time on accusations. She should have thought there was some chance of Elayne coming here. Until this instant, she hadn’t known why Elayne would do so, but now she did. “Lessons learned” were what post-mission debriefs were for. They were still in the crisis. Mike and Andi piled into the front seat of the technical—Mike holding Holly’s rifle upright between his knees like it might explode. She really had to teach him to shoot someday. Taz and Jeremy sat in the back with the M2A1 Browning machine gun. The first thing she did was circle the debris field a couple hundred meters out from what had once been the Senators’ C-40B transport jet. There was a multitude of tracks to the south in the direction of al-Tanf. The farther she circled around the crash site, the mor

