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"What does he mean it’s never been done before?" I turned on the rescued tea my foot frustrated

"It’s been done before, Eden" Lilly tried to reassure me "Not four Iic all of the tian But then usually those people, just died I think the whole issue is actually returning the ht person the right ain with confidence, but a ball dropped in my stomach and I realized for the first time as at risk

"Ok…" I cleared uys suggest I go about this?" I looked pleadingly at the rescued teaestions

"We could try one at a ti Ebanks in the back with his elbow

"Be uest," Ebanks responded with his low, ic back," I was confused I thought the rescued teaic restored, but now that the opportunity was in front of the to try Orto try within with

"Well, it’s just that," Ronan Hannigan began with a shaky Irish accent, "it’s just that, when you took ourto kill us, or at least kne to give it back" He finished his sentence by hanging his head and I watched as ed theht as the then and it would appear that I still have no idea what I’ boys could not look uilt "We could always try though, couldn’t we?" I fought for opti ic?" Ebanks questioned

"Yeah, or what if you can’t give the ic back at all?" Ronan’s fiery Irish accent was less than enthusiastic

"Or what if you finish the job?" Jett et that we are all scared here I’s Or, um, some of them anyway" Especially now, since I didn’t know those were real possibilities, but I didn’t say that to the teas are now?" I looked at the four see low and their shoulders slumped They shook their heads wearily "Then I say we try this, if it doesn’t work, it doesn’t work, but I can’t iine that you would want to stay the way you are for the rest of eternity And for God’s sakes Jett, I' to kill anybody!" I ended my lecture with a flare of the dramatic My speech had the desired effect and all four boys struggled to sit up a little straighter

"Ok, I’ll try," Oscar, as silent through most of the debate, stood up confidently

Oscar walked out of the tight circle the rescued tea in and facedto read so on my face Suddenly he held out his hands as if I should take them Apparently he trusted me It was time I trusted myself

I reached out and clenched his hands in ical pulse underneath his sweaty paline the exhaustion he htly as if afraid of ould come next I followed suit, but only to achieve better concentration

Or so I told ic surprisingly began to stir Soic in the ic as it were, did its best to surface, while ly, led to suppress Oscar’s and locked it deep inside again I inhaled sharply, feeling the struggle in every fiber of ic with my mind toward the surface of ic felt freedoic continued to bury the stolen energy back into the recesses of ic that filledand I was unable to release to Oscar what I had stolen froic out ofI had into h the air Our bodies flung forcefully like rag dolls to opposite sides of the barn We landed in painful cluroan and I juht Mymy own body, but I could tell from where I stood, just inside the open double doors, that as left of Oscar’s ic had not been able to revive him The rest of his tea hiht his hand away I saw that it was covered in dark, crimson blood

I turned around, frustrated and unable to look at him I felt helpless and responsible Any other Immortal would knohat to do; any other I necessary to be able to return theto theht air A thousand stars shone down on h the wide Nebraska sky I wrappedto use the ure out how to give it back, these things take time," Jericho was suddenly atwords, but he was looking at the ground, his baseball cap pulled low on his brow

"I hope you’re right," I winced I couldn’t bear to send another one of that poor tealanced at ic back?" I asked, unsure if I wanted to share the feeling Jericho nodded an affirive it back I didn’t even know I had been holding on to their ic, but now that I’ve found it, it’s liketo keep it"