Blood on the Asphalt biker
The final Hound, realizing his squad was being dismantled by a biker gang and a hacker who could control trees, banked hard, pulling up into the canopy to retreat.
"Let him go!" Dax ordered, checking his mirrors. "Keep pushing! The perimeter of Coldwater is only five miles out!"
We burst through the final, dense thicket of the jungle, hitting the flat, hard-packed dirt of the outer industrial zone. Ahead of us, the towering, ruined skyscrapers of Coldwater stood silhouetted against the setting sun.
We had survived the ambush. We had the kids.
But as we slowed our approach toward the city limits, my data-deck vibrated again.