“Crawl to where?” she asked, her face wet with dew from the grass. Behind her, small flames flickered from the burning bark that littered the front yard.
Lights flickered on from the houses lining the street. If they were going to leave unnoticed, they had better do it soon.
The air in front of them split open and produced Sharkey carrying an assault rifle trained on the other side of the street. He kept the car between him and the trees for cover as he turned around.
“Come on, Lieutenant!”
Austin heard two more invisible shots sizzle overhead, smashing into Kadyn’s house. Sharkey returned fire, his silenced machine gun thumping through the early morning suburban world of hissing sprinklers. The spent shells hit the ground.
An invisible laser bolt smashed into Sharkey’s shoulder. A to
