lieutenant and the rest would make easy pickings as they hung around the source of light. But their failure to report back in whatever schedule they ran to, or the discovery of their bodies, would reveal his movements and he decides to avoid them all together by running deeper into the corn along a deep tractor track.

Steve: I wonder if this is the extent of their patrols. It’s a close enough perimeter but it seems as if he is keeping as many of the drones packed in the centre of the town, maybe to keep them as close as possible.

Maybe he’d expand in the next few days, then reach out to my house with a probing party. I better not give him the chance.

Using the train as cover he runs parallel to the patrol