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The hole has gobbled up all the lights by this point, but it’s a clear night and I have no trouble watching the edge of the pit rocketing toward the Hu wide The driver, who is way too young to have even a permit, whips the wheel back and forth to avoid the torrent of drones exploding all around us One hits a car length in front of us, no tih the blast The windshield disintegrates, showering us with glass
The back wheels slip, we jounce, then leap forward, inches ahead of the hole now I can’t look at it anymore, so I look up
Where the mothership sails serenely across the sky
And beneath it, dropping fast toward the horizon, another drone
No, not a drone, I think It’s glowing
A falling star, itit to the heavens
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BY THE TIME dawn approaches, we’re hway overpass, where the kid with the very big ears they call Du to the wound in his side He’s already worked on , stitching, bandaging
He asked what happened toI told him I was shot by a shark He doesn’t react Doesn’t see shot by a shark is a perfectly natural thing in the after your name to Dumbo When I asked him what his real name was, he said it was…Duet, Dumbo is Dumbo Then there’s Poundcake, a sweet-faced kid who doesn’t talk, whether he can’t or won’t, I don’t know Teacup, a little girl not ht be seriously messed up, and that worries me, because she holds and strokes and cuddles with an M16 that appears to be carrying a full clip
Finally the pretty dark-haired girl called Ringer, who’s about ht black hair, but also has the flawless complexion of an airbrushed azines ser never s to the possibility that she’sbetween her and Ben So ti on theh to overhear the words chess, circle, and set the Humvee?"
"Got lucky," she said "Theyarea about two klicks due west of the ca Guarded, but Poundcake and I had the advantage"
"You shouldn’t have coer"
"If I hadn’t, ouldn’t be talking right now"
"That’s not what I mean Once you saw the caht be the only ones who know the truth about the 5th Wave This is bigger than et"
"That’s different"
"Zombie, you’re not that stupid" Like Ben is only a little bit stupid "Don’t you get it yet? The minute we decide that one person doesn’t ree with Li’l Miss Microscopic Pores on that point While I hold round that overlooks the abandoned highway Beneath a sky croith a billion stars I don’t care what the stars say about how snificant one,The world holds its breath, because there’s really no guarantee that the sun will rise That there was a yesterday doesn’t mean there will be a tomorrow