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I'm
not
fat,

Tomer
said
,

just
big.
My
whole
family
is
big.
You
should
see
my
brother.


Yeah,
me
too
.

Tonia
turned
to
walk
to
the
exit
stairs
,

M
y
momma
looks
just
like
me
and
my
sisters.
Now
my
cousin
Fatima,
well
,
she
was
just
that

fat
imama.

Warner
shook
his
head
and
followed
them
up
the
stairs
,
mumbling
under
his
breath,

It
was
only
a
week,
and
we
had
two
MREs
per
man.

Chapter
1
5

Fuel
Pipeline
Tunnel

Under
Anchorage

s
Park
Strip

1:00
p.m.

The
northern
access
hatch
to
the
underground
tunnel
was
housed
in
a
small
red
-
brick
structure
,
similar
to
an
outhouse
,
behind
an
office
building
on
E
leventh
A
venue.
Its
door
had
been
locked
,
but
Farrah's
position
with
the
gas
company
meant
a
master
key
to
the
system.
Leka
opened
the
door
and
climbed
down
the
ladder,
followed
by
Kreshnik,
both
laden
with
bags
of
tools
and
the
heavy
components
designed
to
fit
precisely
inside
the
double
wall
pipe.
When
they
placed
the
first
one
the
day
before
,
they
discovered
it
was
a
sixteenth
of
an
inch
too
thick
and
would
not
let
the
bolts
line
back
up
in
their
holes
to
secure
the
cover.
They
had
replaced
the
cover
without
the
insulation
and
gone
back
to
the
workshop
at
Farrah's
rented
house
in
order
to
resize
the
part.
It
needed
to
fit
exactly
in
order
to
function
correctly.

As
they
walked
along
the
tunnel
,
Kreshnik
tapped
the
pipes
with
a
wrench,
each
resonating
with
a
solid
thunk
in
response.
He
kept
striking
the
pipes
until
one
rang
out
like
a
hollow
bell.


Here
we
are
,
cousin,

Kreshnik
said
in
Albanian
.

JPF-3528-a.


Get
to
work,

said
Leka
.

It
had
better
fit
this
time.
We
need
to
get
done
before
the
Secret
Service
comes
to
inspect
down
here.


Don't
worry
.
I've
got
it
resized
properly.
How
could
I
have
known
they
used
a
different
thickness
on
some
of these
segments?


You
should
have
known
—you
did
the
research
.

Leka
looked
up
at
the
tunnel
ceiling
. “And
make
sure
it
is
pointed
right
.
It
has
to
get
through
the
top
immediately
for
it
to
work.


No
problem
,
cousin,

Kreshnik
replied.

We
fix
this
one,
then
we
place
the
charges
on
the
ceiling.
The
two
devices
are
set
off
by
the
same
signal.
The
fire
that
comes
down
the
pipe
will
have
no
place
to
go
but
straight
up.

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