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point. Too late to text Storm and tell her he’d finally been able to translate the documents. He’d have to wait until tomorrow. Grant looked around the room, wondering how much longer it would be until his photos were done. He wanted to get going and go home to catch some sleep, but he didn’t want to push Ralph. Grant didn’t know of anyone else in Chicago who would reliably make photos for him this quickly.
    Grant decided the best use of his time would be to keep translating the documents from the Mayor’s office. He input more code and ordered his computer to translate all of the files. The tablet whirred as it worked, and about a minute later the screen started populating with the translated documents.
    Grant started reading through them, and it only took a few minutes of reading for him to suddenly sit up straighter with a pounding heart. His body filled with adrenaline as he realized that the documents contained a careful, week-long plan to stir up chaos and fear of shifters within the city of Chicago. The whole thing would start with an announcement by the Mayor at an “emergency” press conference. The Mayor would tell the press that shifters existed and show video and photo evidence. Then the Mayor would put the whole city on lockdown for everyone’s “safety.” No one in or out.
    According to the document, that press conference was scheduled for noontime the next day, which was less than twelve hours from now.
    “Holy shit,” Grant said under his breath. “We have to get out of the city now, or it’s going to be too late.”
    Grant kept reading the carefully planned out schedule. The Mayor would announce shifter attacks the next day to stir up more fear and chaos. He would plead with the President to help. People posing as civilians would stir up riots. Basically, all hell would break loose. Just as things got out of control, the Mayor would announce the “miracle” eye scanners that could detect shifters. The President would visit and endorse the capture and containment of the dangerous shifters.
    Chicagoans would see the Mayor and President as their saviors, which would solidify their power. Grant sat completely still for a moment, staring at his screen in disbelief. Obviously, he had known the day was coming when he would have to escape Chicago. He was here at this photo shop preparing for that day. But he hadn’t expected that day to be tomorrow. Well, technically, the day was today, if you considered that it was already after midnight.
    He had to worn his friends. They needed to get out of the city now . Leaving under cover of darkness was a much better option. To get to Drew’s cabin in Michigan, they’d have to fly their hovercars over Lake Michigan. This was illegal, so it was bound to attract attention. Grant knew how to temporarily scramble the electronic identification codes on his hovercraft so that a computer couldn’t recognize who he was from a distance. If the Fur Coats could fly out in darkness, there was a good chance no one would be able to tell it was them leaving. If any police hover tried to chase them, the police hover wouldn’t be able to get a good visual on them. And Grant was confident that he could outfly the Chicago police. Those boys spent all their time in the city, so they weren’t used to the high speeds of open flying across a giant lake. Grant, on the other hand, had first learned to fly a hovercar in Alaska, where wide open spaces were the rule rather than the exception.
    “Your photos are ready, buddy,” Ralph said, breaking into Grant’s thoughts. Grant looked up to see a small box land on the counter with a thud as Ralph set it down. Without a word, Grant went to the counter and placed his fingerprint on the tablet that Ralph offered with the payment details on it. The price for this box of photos was over one hundred thousand dollars. Grant had that much money in savings—he’d been squirreling it away for a house. But what good would a house do him