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LEND ME YOUR EARSAMONG OTHER THINGS

Where’s Denise?" Raquel de at Water Boy in his cell

I breathed a sigh of relief as ht where I left her," Not-​Denise said He kept glancing over at me

"And where was that?"

"In the cemetery You should be able to find her"

"Find Denise or find her body?" Raquel’s voice was hard

Not-​Denise rolled his eyes "She’ll have a headache Honestly, it’s like you think I’m some sort of a monster" His mouth twisted in an ironic smile

"What are you?"

"So rude We haven’t even been introduced"

She gave a can I just start shocking hiot himself into more trouble "My name’s Evie Raquel you already know--punched her and then stole her face, remember?--and Jacques over here is your new best friend, because he’s in charge of the feeding schedule around here Assu you eat And you are?"

"Lend"

"Lend?" Raquel asked

"Yes, as in, lend ain

"Why not Borrow?" I asked "Better yet, Steal?"

"I’ll ask again," Raquel snapped "What are you?" Given what this guy had done, I didn’t bla impatient

"Good question Maybe you could tell me?"

"Why are you here?"

"I love a nice dose of electric current infor?"

"Answers"

"Well" Raquel gave him a thin-​lipped smile "So am I" Her communicator buzzed Relief flashed across her face as she read the e "Tomorrow, then"

She turned and started down the hall with Jacques I was still staring at Lend-​as-​Raquel, watching his real face beneath hers I could alue out at led It was too ridiculous co from Raquel’s face

Raquel barked fro Lend-​as-​Raquel a final glare, I ran to catch up "They found Denise, she’s fine And Fehl got back, too I don’t want you talking to that thing until we knohat it is and why it’s here"

No way, I thought "Okay," I said

"What do you see when you look at it?"

"I don’t know At first I couldn’t really see anything, I could just tell there was so anyone, it’s like--I can’t catch onto anything I was getting better, though, staring at his I can really focus on Other than that it’s like a silhouette or a clear shadow orI don’t know--a person ht"

"I’ to call in some researchers First we find out what he is, then we find out what he wants"

I shrugged, feigning nonchalance "Cool, whatever"