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enemy rapidly losing control of their forces. It was necessary now to continue on the offensive, keeping the momentum high.
    “Faster, come on! At the crossroads you’ll get help, don’t stop. Faster, you need to evacuate quickly!”
    The crossroads ahead was blocked by a pair of police cars, with an ambulance stood behind them. She counted five patrols and a couple of doctors. They had been sent here without any explanation about what to do, simply because no one knew what was going on. They heard shooting from the back of the block and saw running civilians. Women and children at the front, she needs a lot of noise.
    “Officer, what's happening?!”
    Police uniform, sewn especially for her, didn’t disappoint, camouflage worked.
    “Terrorists, fanatics! There are about twenty, all with rifles and hand grenades – they are shooting everyone, going from house to house. We were ambushed and they killed my partner. I received orders to withdraw the civilians. We need help, we have many wounded!”
    “I wasn’t informed about this. Do they have a hostage?!”
    The senior officer didn’t finish because shooting started from the top floor of three-storey house at the next crossroads. Two civilians were killed, and the driver of the police car was seriously injured – all according to plan. Officers opened fire in response, while the doctors tried t o evacuate the civilians. Sheltered in the porch, Number Three used her service weapon a couple of times, firing in the direction of the attackers, and then extracted from her sleeve a small air pistol.
    In the rage of the brief battle the police officers and doctors didn’t notice the tiny wounds caused by the little bullets. The clock is ticking. After a maximum of six minutes, the shooting will stop and this crossroads will be captured, the same as the previous two. Number Three waited, occasionally looking out of the window for another patrol team, or fire truck. She continued listening to the radio – the panic rose further.

15. Ark
     
    If a driver used the same car for a long time, he usually gave it a name, and Miss Gloria was no exception - she had driven this bus for seven years, and called it Ark. She was not particularly religious, and the story of Noah and his friends didn’t mean a great deal to her; she just liked the name, a symbol of peace and security in the middle of road chaos. At the moment it was quiet on Ark board, althoug h she didn’t like what was happening outside.
    “Miss Gloria, we're already late!” A girl in the front row with a ponytail looked at her expensive wristwatch. The driver peered at the digital clock on the dashboard and agreed with the girl - they were late.
    “Today the entire city is late, don’t worry. I'm sure that the school principal already knows about it.”
    Over the years she has driven Ark and carried children on board, there have been many times that she had to stand in traffic jams. Usually jams occurred due to the fault of anothe r incompetent driver or someone speeding, imagining himself to be a Formula 1 racer.
    But today the road was blocked by police – she couldn’t remember a similar case. What these guys doing here, trying to catch some crazy in a stolen sports car? But the road has been blocked for a long time, and the police have simply stopped traffic, why? She thought she knew the answer, and it is one she doesn’t like – it must be because of the hijack of a plane at the airport, and the reported shooting.
    But why stop the traffic here, so far from the airport? She has already contacted the control room and was told that that traffic was blocked all through the city because of the riots. What riots? She tried to call her friends, other drivers. Two responded that they were also stood in traffic jams, another one didn’t answer.
    “Miss Gloria, can I open the window?”
    “No!”
    When necessary, she was able to be strict, since discipline had to be maintained on the Ark, otherwise the