And then it swung its great head away and began striding back toward the Shambhala, barking once over its shoulder blade for the others to follow, which, after a moment’s hesitation, they did. And then Red looked up to see Charlotte beaming down at him from between two spotlights, her hair surrounded by a halo, and smiled.
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Their names were Roger and Savanna Aldiss, Clara Bonner, Landon Tyrese, and Joe Harmon, and they, like Red and Charlotte and the remaining Shambhalans, had so far survived the worst the Flashback could dish out, and this with only a handful of weapons and other gear and an old hay truck. Unlike the Shambhalans, at least until the very end, they had learned how to work as a cohesive unit, and had versed themselves in the laws and the language of this new world
