As the footsteps were getting closer, Ethan was warning us of how many there were and how close they were getting.

He was mind-linking me the whole time because I was the only one that he could mind-link with, and they were going to approach me before they got to the others. I was the closest to the soldiers.

I could see that the soldiers all had their guns out, held tightly in front of them, their fingers ready to pull the trigger at any given moment. But I couldn't pick up the ...