I won't ask where you're from, how you got here, how fast you can
fly, or anything like that."
Peering sharply at him, Mandi said, "Yeah, you've managed to avoid those
questions so far. Why?"
"Because I don't really need to know the answers. It's enough that you're on
my arm and sharing time with me."
Continuing to regard him askance, Mandi asked, "Or is it that you already
know the answers? Did John or someone else brief you about me?"
"Nope. You appeared out of nowhere today when you hopped over a car and
jumped into the sky with it. A little while later I ran into you at the
elevators."
"So when you jumped on that guy, you just assumed -- without knowing
anything else about me -- that I'd do something about the other two?"
"Yup. I figured all you needed was a distraction to provide a reasonable
opening. You'd just survived a major explosion, so it didn't seem likely that
bullets would slow you down much, and all the guns were pointed at me at the
time anyway. I'd have been real surprised if you hadn't done what you did."
"Surprised?" asked Mandi. "You'd have been dead."
Snapping his fingers as if just realizing that fact, Cade grinningly said,
"Well, then, it's a damned good thing I guessed right, isn't it?"
Mandi's face was stern as she stopped to face him and said, "You certainly
put a hell of a lot of faith in that guess.
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