“Won’t work, there’s too many of them.
“Herbicide?”
Rex was nodding, pacing, and talking. “Herbicide, yes, good thinking. What else?”
“Fire.”
Rex stopped walking and faced him. “Now you’re talking.”
51 - What a Diversion Sounds Like
Trent stood on the back porch, staring at the reservoir and the old metal crane that stretched across it, a phone held to his ear, waiting for Wade to come back to it. Above him, the sun said it was noon. Behind him, through an open window, he could hear his mate occasionally talking to herself while she worked. Troy was on his way back from the dam. They hadn’t been able to get ahold of Trevor inruhior on the phone, and anyone else they tried wasn’t answering either, but Trent had finally gotten Wade to answer and had explained everything.
Wade came back on the line. “I’m sending you the blueprints of the reservoir, the dam, and the end cap. The dam is what’s important.”
“Got it,” Trent growled, watching the tree line. Troy came out of the forest, and headed right for him.
“Trevor will get ahold of you as soon as he can.” Wade said.
“Got it,” Trent said again. They hung up.
Troy came up the porch steps, an expectant look on his face. “That damn dam is great,” he said. “There’s no sign that anyone has been anywhere near it.”
The phone dinged. Trent pulled up the blueprints that Wade had sent, scanned them quickly, and then showed them to Troy.
“Now you need to see if you can find this end cap,” Trent told him. “There will be a concrete manhole cover in the forest somewhere due south of the dam.”
“Check,” Troy said, turning right around again, but Trent stopped him.
“We aren’t getting any backup any time soon. We haven’t been able to get ahold of Trevor because they’ve got brush fires in all the forests around town, something big is going on near Blue Claw Woods, and they’ve even had some Khain sightings from humans. They are still trying to figure out exactly what’s going on.”
“Sounds like a diversion to me.”
“That’s what I told him.” Trent said. “Wade is double-timing it right now to make sure everyone has bottled water and they all know not to bathe in or drink what comes out of the faucet until further notice, especially not the young. He’s got Kalista doubling thefelenon our water towers. After the poisoning, a new water supply system was put in place and it was completely covered and secured, all except for this reservoir. This reservoir was just cut off from it completely. There is no way for Khain to get anything into the water unless he walks into the treatment plant and pours it in, and even that has multiple shut down valves.”
“Unless…” Troy prompted.
“Unless he gets it into the reservoir here, then blows that dam and the end cap in the forest.”
Troy nodded. “That’s why we need the wolfpower here.”
“Yeah, when I get Trevor, I’ll tell him that.”
Troy nodded and took off. Trent watched him go, scenting the air the entire time. He didn’t smell anything out of place.
After a few minutes, Trevor reached out to him inruhi.His voice sounded far away, but clear.
Sorry Trent, I talked to Wade and he told me everything. We’ve already got a whole shit-ton of crap to deal with in Big Claw Woods, though.
I heard. All is quiet here now, but I don’t think that’s going to last.
You’ve gotfelenout there, use them.
Ah, we might have already pissed them off.
You better pucker up and kiss some pussy cat ass.
Troy broke in.Damn, I thought you were going to say something else, Trev. I was about to get excited.
