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| | Day Four: Running Like Hell |
 | | After situating the boy into the airspeeder's passenger seat, Chaz circled the vehicle, settled into the pilot's station, and lowered the plexisteel domed hatch, glancing down once at his chronograph. |
 | | Unlike a landspeeder that maintains a constant height of about one meter, an airspeeder was capable of altitudes into the ionosphere, and Landor's spiffy red one had moves that Chaz had thought only a nimble X-wing could perform. |
 | | With a bone-jarring explosion, the airspeeder slammed into the biodome's wall, just over the exit, and the ensuing conflagration spewed burning, liquid plasma in a cauterizing spray for nearly 30 meters in every direction, and when the smoke cleared, not even a fragment of General Landor's red speeder could be located. |
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