He didn't move when she touched him, and at first didn't respond when she spoke.<i>No more.</i>His hands tightened into fists.<i>Sunny is the last one I'll fail. No more.</i>When he turned to face her his eyes were burning with his resolve. "You're damn right I'm kicking myself. This... Sunny's state is all my fault. All my doing. If I had been more careful, if I had been less proud, more receptive, more careful," he cut himself off and shook his head, taking a deep breath. He lifted his hands and took her shoulders, looking her in the eye. "I am going to end this war, Malia. I am going to destroy the Vanguard before they can hurt anyone else who matters to me."<br/><br/>He kissed her then, deep and fierce, and once it broke he returned to the bunker alongside her. "First, I'm going to apologize to Sunny again, if she even wants to see me. And then I'm going to send out more scouts--we need to know where the Vanguard is, where they're going, what their goals are." He paused as the doors rumbled open. "I know we were going to take today off, but... well. Things have changed. Will you help? You know who's quickest and quietest out of the Runners. We're going to need fast, quiet people to get ahead of them."<br/><br/>The doors shut soundly behind them, and nothing moved. For several long minutes there was nothing, no movement, no sound except the wind rustling through the trees. Then a bush moved. A patch of grass twitched. Part of a tree broke away from the trunk. A dozen Hunters stood from the brush around Central, and down the path came two more. Sarah bore a fresh scar where her brother's bullet had grazed her head, and Max still wore his stolen coat and armor. She smiled a wicked smile as she looked down at the doors. "'Get ahead of us'? How cute, brother dear." She waved over one of her Hunters. "Go back and tell my father--Max was right. We've found their base. Have him bring the main army to bear. Looks like we're in for a lovely little reunion."