378 Local Delivery

Wolfe took most of an hour to chase down the bus on foot, but John had kept to the road, and they were all still in one piece when he arrived. That was all that Wolfe could have asked for, and once he got to the driver's side window, John brought the bus to a stop.

"Good to see you back safe and intact. How much time do you think we have?" John asked, mentally calculating if they could make it to relative safety on time.

"We probably have all day. The city's residents had turned against the army when I left. There is no more heavy artillery to be found, no tanks, no mortars, nothing. So, the civilians started to capture the soldiers as they fled from the battle, and then they surrounded the Auction House before I left.