![]() The Captain took the job of programming the cell doors to automatically open an hour after the city emptied. In crossing America, he had heard stories of prisons and zoos filled with the carcasses of captives who had starved to death. Nathan Lee worried that if and when that day ever arrived, there would be so much chaos the guards might forget to open the cells. Their release, in short, would have to wait until E-Day, their fabled evacuation date. After Miranda's directive shutting down human experimentation, Los Alamos had ceased the harvesting of cities, which were probably finished anyway. If the deck sweeps had not been called off, they could have been transferred by helicopter to some distant place, but now that wasn't an option either. It was a pit of despair and deprivations down along the river. Sending them down to the pilgrim camp would be like throwing them into quicksand. ![]() They couldn't be freed anywhere close to the city, or they might try to return and prey upon it. The clones were too wild, and at the same time too tame. For the next several hours, they might as well have been discussing the release of zoo animals into the wilderness. As it developed, the Captain had put a great deal of thought to it already. ![]()
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