<div style="text-align: center">《 Armando 》<br/>
<i>Location: KOA campground<br/>
Addressing: Dan</i>​</div><br/><br/><div class="bbImageWrapper bbImageAligned--left lazyload js-lbImage" data-lb-caption-extra-html="" data-lb-sidebar-href="" data-single-image="1" data-src="/proxy.php?image=https%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FafXM3Pq.jpg&amp;hash=d05c3bca7ee67bad1c9e804953a1539b" title="afXM3Pq.jpg">
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</div>Would they be surprised? Would they tell them? Armando had shouldered the two weapons that Ray had brought along. Weapons he had never seen before but had a good idea where they had come from. For now, the least they could do was clean up the mess the eldest Hale had created. Dead were rising. How many, Armando couldn't be sure. Eddie had been off fishing, and by the looks of it he'd been slaughtered without anyone else knowing it. Were others dead by silent means? He didn't doubt Alvaro was present, perhaps even participating, but Armando had to wonder on whose order. This was messier than Hale's usual style.<br/><br/>He holstered his weapon and moved along to help Dan dispatch the others with his knife. They didn't need to draw more attention. Armando's face was blank but he was tallying everything from the start of Hale's announcement to now.<br/><br/>"I don't know, Dan," he answered, disheartened as it all stacked up. "We can extract him by means of force.. risking more bloodshed. We can lie but I doubt they will believe us. We can hope they all scattered and no one at all is near the cabin." If Rebel had even stayed put. "They won't want further help. They hadn't wanted our help to begin with." And a lot of good it had done them. Their fears, and what he'd promised wouldn't happen, had happened. Armando was scanning the area, looking for any other movement. He should have asked Ray how many, but at the time had not wanted to know the answer.