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"Grandh the car s at the desert, re to tell you that I&039;ie Probably for the last time"

On Brent&039;s cheap cell phone Grand up So to - hiss - finish off that little - crackle - now? That&039;s - beep - time"

Brent frowned He could barely hear her "I don&039;t know if this is the right thing to do But she has Lucy and sheactually evil I can&039;t let that happen I&039;m the only one in the world who can stop her, and - "

"Boy," Grandh - up, then you do it If anyone - rumble - her, she broke my - pop"

"I just wish Dad was here," he told her "He would knohat the right thing to do was All I knohat feels right to ht now" The phone beeped three times in his hand and he realized he&039;d lost the connection Dana&039;s car e There would be no more parental advice

It meant they had almost arrived "I really want to thank you for your help," he told Dana, sitting back in his seat and closing his eyes "I suppose I could have just run down here but I would have been exhausted when I arrived"

"I would do a lot of things for you, Brent," Dana told hi time"

He blushed and looked out the"Here," he said "This is where I get out" He recognized a butte on the horizon and a stand of nopal cactus This here they had set up their ca into the desert The car couldn&039;t get hi back or not," he told the popular girls "Can you wait an hour? If I don&039;t show up by then, just go home and - and tell the police They won&039;t be able to stop Maggie But maybe they&039;ll find somebody who can"

"Brent," Dana said, "just be careful For me?"

He couldn&039;t proet out of the car

"Wait," Jill said She leaned over his seat and grabbed his hand "Just one thing before you go"

"Yeah?"

"Soht," Brent said, wondering what she had in mind

"If your sister kills you, Dana won&039;t have a date for ho Okay? So come back to us in one piece Otherwise it will be incredibly aard if I have to find her a replacement at the last minute"

Brent closed the door softly behind hi as fast as he could Maggie had a considerable head start and he had no idea what she was up to He ran on the flat desert floor, then reached the head of the ravine and started leaping fro as much air as he could so he could survey the destruction ahead of hiht to tell he&039;d coht place The trailers and construction equipment near the cylinder were trashed, torn apart or picked up and cast aside like toys the day after Christie, on the other hand, was in plain view She wasn&039;t trying to hide She stood near the cylinder, out in the sun She was holding soenerator, though Brent was too far away to ie threw it at hiot a enerator caht at hi him in fuel oil and machine parts He looked up just in ti close behind Then a half of a construction trailer The noise was incredibly loud as he leapt from rock to rock, neverprojectiles