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"It
isn't fair!" Hartford threw his suitcase with a furious jerk
into a corner of the office. "Whenever we are ready to leave
for our planned vacation some nasty catastrophe occurs and we are
called back to solve it."
"That's
the price for being the best, Doc," Captain Zachary Fox
dropped his own luggage next to his desk and opened the briefing
file, the he looked up. "Where's Goose?"
"On
his canyoning tour," Niko informed him dryly.
"He's
been allowed to leave while we–?!!" Doc's
breathing couldn't catch up with his speaking.
Niko
simply shrugged.
"What did
he do for it?!" Zach demanded to know. "All of us were
assigned to that mission."
"He
told Walsh who would have to look after Poss if he has to
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