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Chapter 25

MORGAN&039;S ARMY

When we pulled ourselves back up onto the subway platforave us a wide berth

You could hardly blame them We were covered in dust and sweat, our palms reddened with rust, our expressions crazed And the funny thing ere all over each other Fighting the worm had redoubled my usual implacable desires, and so just to shtly, to taste each other&039;s lips

"This is weird," she said

"Yeah But good"

"Mo somewhere a little more private"

I nodded "Where?"

"Anywhere"

We ran up the stairs and into Union Square, crossing the park, walking without a plan The city seemed weirdly blurry around us My connection with Lace was so intense, everyone else seemed faded and remote The parasite&039;s i insideher apartment - after all, she&039;d have to pick up some clothes some time - and started to draw Lace toward the Hudson But then rew under the current of humanity in the streets

Predators

They were spread out across the croalking not much faster than normal humans, but soh high grass, leaving only the faintest stir behind thee

No one else seemed to notice them, but their uncanny movements made my head pound I&039;d never seen so ht Watch hunters alork alone, but this was a pack

And the funny thing was, they were really sexy

"Cal?" Lace said softly

"Yeah I see them"

"What are they?"

"They&039;re like us Infected"

"The Night Watch?"

"No Soan Ryder, she was already standing in front of us, blocking our path, wearing all black and an amused expression

"What do we do?" Lace asked, squeezingher to a halt

"I guess we talk to thean s a drink of water before she answered She&039;d taken us to a hotel bar on Union Square The others had keptat the door of the place and cradling a cell phone Occasionally, he glanced back at her and signaled

Even with Lace beside an Me back into reen, I finally recalled And her black hair set such a contrast, gathered in locks as thick as shoelaces against her pale skin

"We didn&039;t find you," she said "That is, eren&039;t looking for you We were after so underneath"

"The woran nodded "You s chunk out of it too"

"It was in the old Eighteenth Street station," I said

Morgan nodded and esture to the carrier in front, and he spoke into his cell phone

Our beers arrived, and Morgan raised hers into the air "Well done, then"

"What&039;s going on?" I said

"What? Are you finally going to listen toto run away?"

"I&039; And we already know about the old strain and the new, and that we&039;reis crazy - infecting people at randoo about this"

"It&039;s not as random as you think, Cal" She leaned back into the plush couch "Ie"

I nodded, thinking about wolbachia driving T- and B-cells crazy, your i your own eyeballs