Chapter 12 - Icy water floods the escape tunnel as the family plunges headfirst into the freezing Canadian wilderness while tactical gunfire echoes behind them in the darkness.
Julian carried Clara through the waist-deep torrent rushing through the old drainage pipe.
Dr. Harrison clutched the yellow swaddle tightly above the swirling, freezing water line.
Eleanor followed closely behind, her aristocratic endurance tested to its absolute limit.
Behind them, muffled shouts and automatic gunfire ricocheted off the concrete tunnel walls.
A bullet sparked off the metal pipe inches from Julian's head, sending shrapnel into the water.
"Move faster!" Julian yelled, pushing through the heavy iron grating at the tunnel's exit.
They tumbled out into the freezing Canadian wilderness as a fierce blizzard raged overhead.
Snowflakes stung their exposed skin like tiny needles in the sub-zero mountain gale.
An unmarked black snowcat idled at the edge of the clearing with its engine purring softly.
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The mysterious contact in the trench coat stood by the passenger door holding a rifle.
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