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"Strip to your underwear and get in on the other side,"Dary nor fatuous
He added shortly, "Elena is dying"
The last three words seeh Elena couldn’t parse the hard, his eyes wide "Bonnie and I have been gathering hay and fuel and we’re All right"
"You’ve been exercising -clothes that kept you warh up in the wind I got the other thurg to break off wood froet the hel in, Stefan, and give her so to make her a vampire"
"Nnn,"Elena tried to say, but Stefan didn’t seem to understand
Da to warm you up from the other side You won’t have to become a vampire just yet For God’s sake,"he added suddenly, explosively,
"some prince you picked!"
Stefan’s voice was quiet and tense "You tried putting her in a thermal envelope?"
"Of course I tried, you idiot! No ic works beyond the Mirror except telepathy"
Elena had no sense of tiainst hers from the other side
And soht, aren’t you, Elena? I don’t care whether you’re playing a joke on ht, aren’t you?
Just tell me that, love
Elena wasn’t able to answer at all
Diments of sound came to her ears: "Bonnieon top of her andpack ourselves back on either side"
And dul feelings stirred her sense of touch: a s down on her
So on her neck from above
And warmth on either side
I’ Maybe we’l have a nice drea,"Meredith said, on a pause fro bouts
"I wish they knee’re doing,"Matt said wearily as he taped another note card amulet onto aAnd another
"Do you know, ht in my dreams,"Mrs Flowers said slowly
Meredith turned, startled "So did I! Right out on the front porch, it sounded like But I was too tired to get up"
"Itat all"Mrs Flowers frowned She was boiling tap water for tea The electricity was sporadic Matt and Saber had driven back to the boardinghouse earlier that day so that Matt could gather Mrs
Flowers’s most important instruments - her herbs for teas, compresses, and poultices He hadn’t had the heart to tel her about the state of the boardinghouse, or what those ot malach had done to it He’d had to find a loose board froet from the hal to the kitchen
There was no third floor anymore and very little second
At least he hadn’t run into Shinichi
"What I’ is that maybe there’s soht alone? Sounds like a Shinichi zombie,"Matt said
"Maybe But maybe not Mrs Flowers, do you have any idea of when you hear the crying? Early in the night or late?"
"Let me think, dear It seems to me that I hear it whenever I wake up - and old people wake up quite frequently"
"I usual y hear it toward thefor the first few hours and wake up early"
Mrs Flowers turned to Matt "What about you, Matt, dear?
Do you ever hear a sound like crying?"
Matt, who deliberately overworked hiet a solid six hours of sleep at night, said, "I’ve heard the wind kind of uess"
"It sounds as if we have an al -night ghost, my dears,"Mrs
Flowers said cal of tea
Matt saw Meredith glance at him uneasily - but Meredith didn’t know Mrs Flowers as well as he did
"You don’t real y think it’s a ghost,"he said now
"No, I don’t Ma ma hasn’t said a word about it, and then it’s your house, Matt, dear No gruesome murders or hideous secrets in its past, I should think Let o on with their tea Then she opened her eyes and gave them a puzzled smile
"Ma host Then listen well to what it has to say’"
"Okay,"Matt said poker-faced "Since it’s uess I’d better search for it But when? Should I set an alare a watch rota," Mrs Flowers said
"Okay,"Meredith agreed proht to four; Matt can have the first one; and Mrs
Flowers, you can have the early-et a nap in the afternoon if you want"
Matt felt uneasy "Why don’t we just break it up into tatches and the two of you can share one? I’l take the other"
"Because, dear Matt,"Meredith said, "we don’t want to be treated like ’ladies’And don’t argue" - she hefted the fighting stave - "because I’ was shaking the roo Matt with it Stillhalf-asleep, he put his hand under his pil ow and pul ed out the revolver A hand grabbed it and he heard a voice
"Matt! It’s ily, Matt reached for the laers prevented hiht,"Meredith whispered "It’s very faint, but if you co"
That woke Matt up the rest of the way "Right now?"