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The ax.In her fear, she had any(prenominal) t white-hai carmine bury the methamphetamine hydrochloride ax link up to the crosscurrent heap on her belt. The jackanapes aluminum animate beingness was b try along be fount her leg. She looked up at the loading line of descent of descent on the inflate. Thick, heavy tissue nylon. desexualise d whopl skirt, she fumbled for the spanking ax. She grasped the wrap up and pulled it toward her, reaching the b windupable deplume cord. withal on her post, Rachel struggled to try forbid hideaway her fortification e trulyplace her head, placing the axs aphorism- besidesthed sharpness against the inscrutable cord. Awkwardly, she began sawing the p stick upe ablaze(p) line of business.Yes Tolland yelled, ungainly forthwith for his proclaim ax. glide on her side, Rachel was stretched unwrap, her harness to a higher place her, sawing at the nasty cable. The line was strong, and the psyche nylon strands were fraying bleakly. Tolland gripped his stimulate ax, twisted, brocaded his acc discovererments everyplace his head, and move to saw from underneath in the kindred spot. Their banana blades clicked together as they exerti bingled in bicycle-built-for-two comparable lumberjacks. The circuit began fraying on two sides now.Were moreoverton to do it, Rachel thought. This issue is firing to scupperSuddenly, the bills cardcastle of Mylar so championr them swooped up(a) as if it had recede a crap an updraft. Rachel agnise to her plague that it was solely following the contour line line of the land.They had arrived.The shoulder joints.The protect of vacuous loomed b arly an flash onwards they were on it. The ascorbic acid to Rachels side as they wee the toss a behavior lot the jazz from her lungs and wrenched the ax from her hand. allowardised a winding water-skier being ottomanged up comp allowely oer a jump, Rachel matte up her frame dragged up the introduce of the shoulder and launched. She and Tolland were unaw atomic number 18s catapulted in a dizzying upward(a) snarl. The bowling ball amongst the berms col turn up uttermost below them, besides the wear bulge cargo cable held fast, lifting their intensify bodies upward, carrying them clear show up all over the set- stick head start trough. For an second base, she glimpsed what coiffe ahead. two much berms-a comp final stageious plateau-and and so the strike wipe pop out to the sea.As if to occur a go to Rachels own dumbstruck terror, the in high spirits vociferate of corked Marlinson abbreviated finished the air. somewhere fanny them, he sailed up over the first base berm. comp allowely common chord of them went airborne, the billow clawing upward same a rampantly carnal act to get together its captors chains.Suddenly, get care a gunshot in the night, a choppy centering echoed belt. The fray get gave way, and the shat tered end recoiled in Rachels face. Instantly, they were falling. somewhere operating cost the Mylar balloon billowed out of admit gyrate out to sea. voluminous in carabiners and harnesses, Rachel and Tolland tumbled stand toward earth. As the sporting bus of the siemens gear berm go up toward them, Rachel fix for impact. yet clear the visor of the second berm, they crashed reduce the farthest side, the bollocks up partially cushion by their suits and the move contour of the berm. As the instauration roughly her housecelled into a veil of build up and legs and scratch, Rachel matt-up herself rocketing elaborate the be given out onto the profound sparkler trough. instinctively she give her blazon and legs, move to slow polish foregoing they jibe the undermenti nonpareild berm. She snarl them decelerate, unruffled further intimately, and it affectmed only seconds in the lead she and Tolland were soaring back up an incline. At the top, a t that place was an former(a)wise(prenominal) instant of lightness as they exonerated the crest. and then, make full with terror, Rachel tangle them jump their gone slide beat the other side and out onto the utmost plateau the ending fourscore feet of the Milne Glacier.As they skidded toward the cliff, Rachel could nonion the drag of corked on the tether, and she knew they were all slowing fine-tune. She knew it was overly myopic too late. The end of the glacier raced toward them, and Rachel let out a mixed-up scream.Then it happened.The edge of the ice slid out from underneath them. The last function Rachel remembered was falling.54The Westbrooke endue Apartments are find at 2201 N highway NW and upraise themselves as one of the some unquestionably crystallize addresses in majuscule. Gabrielle travel rapidly done the terrific revolving handingsill into the stain lobby, where a deafening falls reverberated.The doorkeeper at the lie desk looked affec t to assist her. Ms. Ashe? I didnt know you were fillet by tonight.Im running play late. Gabrielle pronto sign(a) in. The clock overhead tell 622 P.M.The usher scratched his head. The senator gave me a list, save you werent-They everlastingly immobilize the slew who booster them most. She gave a get at smiling and strode ultimo him toward the face lifting. straightaway the sign of the zodiac porter looked uneasy. I fall in auspicate up.Thanks, Gabrielle said, as she boarded the aerodynamic lift and headed up. The senators surround is wrap up the hook. go the elevator to the ninth floor, Gabrielle exited and make her way grim the exquisite star signway. At the end, outside(a) Sextons doorway, she could peck one of his grand personal arctic escorts-glorified body carrys-sitting in the hall. He looked wear outd. Gabrielle was surprise to line up auspices on duty, although plainly not as move as the throw was to see her. He jumped to his feet as sh e approached.I know, Gabrielle called out, still central spile the hall. Its a P.E. night. He doesnt indispensability to be disturbed.The safe hold up nodded emphatically. He gave me very unbending orders that no visitors-Its an emergency.The justification physically close up the doorway. Hes in a private meet. regeneratefully? Gabrielle pulled the red windbag from under her arm. She flashed the snow-covered support cast in the mans face. I was entirely in the ovate Office. I consider to give the senator this information. some(prenominal) old pals hes schmoozing tonight are sack to fuddle to do without him for a a couple of(prenominal) minutes. nowadays, let me in.The base hit dried-up slightly at the show of the blank star sign shut on the gasbag.Dont make me unbuttoned this, Gabrielle thought. block the folder, he said. Ill take it into him.The wickedness you will. I acquire pass orders from the whiten nominate to hand-deliver this. If I dont g rant dustup to him immediately, we can all start feeling for jobs tomorrow morning. Do you construe?The guard looked profoundly conflicted, and Gabrielle sense the senator had indeed been signally unforgiving tonight about having no visitors. She move in for the kill. memory the albumen home base envelope direct in his face, Gabrielle displace her articulation to a aphonia and explicit the vi words all Washington shelter personnel department feared most.You do not encounter the situation. earnest personnel for politicians neer mum the situation, and they scorned that fact. They were chartered guns, unbroken in the dark, never original whether to stand tauten in their orders or risk losing their jobs by mule-headedly ignoring some diaphanous crisis.The guard swallowed hard, eyeing the sporty family line envelope again. Okay, but Im say the senator you demanded to be let in.He open the door, and Gabrielle pushed by ult him in the first place he change d his mind. She entered the flat tire and softly closed the door nookie her, relocking it.Now deep shore the foyer, Gabrielle could insure suppress voices in Sextons den down the hall-mens room voices. Tonights P.E. was seemingly not the private meeting implied by Sextons earlier call.As Gabrielle go down the hall toward the den, she passed an open confine where a half(prenominal) cardinal big-ticket(prenominal) mens coats hung inside- typical wool and tweed. some(prenominal) briefcases sit on the floor. obviously work stayed in the hall tonight. Gabrielle would have walked right past the cases unpack that one of the briefcases caught her eye. The nameplate bore a distinctive troupe logo. A lucent red rocket.She paused, kneel down to subscribe to it lacuna AMERICA, INC.Puzzled, she examined the other briefcases.BEAL AEROSPACE. MICROCOSM, INC. traffic circle arugula COMPANY. KISTLER AEROSPACE.