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I was flying over the Pacific Ocean

It was the next night I had spent the day byhis hands, even as the doctors had raced in and out of the hospital rooet out of the way One even shoved ht hard to save him

I watched from his bedside as the doctors used all their skill and medicines and machines One doctor toldpreparations I told hiing on Still alive

For now

The ocean was black and infinite Crazy, glowing lights zigzagged beneath the surface, soer than others, and I knew this was life Ocean life So soand blowing out great sprays of water that refracted the uidly, riding the tides of night Cold wind blew over my perfectly aerodynamic body

It had been a hell of a day The black halo around my son was so dense that it was nearly syrupy He had only hours to live, I knew it Danny was by his side And so was hter Sherbet had stopped by, and so had Fang and Kingsley Mercifully, at separate tihthorse and Spinoza all stopped by, too, each bringing flowers Aaron King checked out , and just shook his head in wonder Knighthorse and Spinoza were both irked that they had not been invited to the big shon at the casino, until I reent who could take care of , but I felt perfectly comfortable The moon was only half full overhead

Had it really been only teeks ago that the hulking sley had appeared in my hotel suite?

I had checked on Maddie, too The little girl was going to make it She had needed a full blood transfusion The black halo around her little body had all but disappeared

The wind seemed to pick up from behind me, and I soared effortlessly Belowbodies surfacing and spraying I picked up speed and quickly swept past theht of the water The dark water The world seeht diffused

I looked down againstopped flapping, then tucked s in and dove

I closed my eyes as I broke the surface

My aerodynah the water, and I shot down into the dark depths But the water, ht zipped through it, bright filas and discovered, to h the water,iant, bat-shaped s slowly but powerfully Water surged past me, but did not hurt ly adaptive and resilient

I was aly adaptive and resilient

But , and he would be dead within hours I knew it The doctors knew it Everyone knew it You did not need to be a doctor or psychic to see the encroachive him eternal life, in fact I could have my baby boy by my side forever Detective Hanner had toldmortal into immortal