#CHAPTER 231: Negotiations (New Chapter)

Sarah POV I almost passed out when I came back to the plane for the last time, but the feeling of Chloe and Grace cuddling up to me and a half-can of microwaved beans got me feeling better. Zane was relaying messages to me as I scarfed them down. “No indication what the signal is supposed to be?” Zane asked. “No, and I hung around for several minutes after he said he’d blow everything up, but no one said a word.” “We know it’s not our showing we’re taking them ‘seriously,’” Travis said. “Sunrise is a good thirty minutes before our deadline.” I thought of those children on the leader’s phone again. Were they dead? Is that what had tipped him over into madness? “A phone, you idiot,” I said aloud. Everyone was looking at me again. “He, the leader, he had a personal smartphone in his hand, and when I told you about him that first time, he was talking on it.” “Could you tell the make?” Ted asked while getting her laptop ready. “It was a Google Pixar.” “And it was turned