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Behind the, ca moment than he should be

"Well done!" said Milos, practically bea "Very well done, Allie!"

"Yeah, yeah," said Squirrel, "I'll bet she did that even better than Jackin' Jill"

"Congratulations," Milos said "You have just brought a new soul into Everlost Whatever you did to Mary in the past, she will forgive you now"

"I don't want her forgiveness"

"You may not want it, but you will need it," Milos said, very seriously "Otherwise she will destroy you, and I do not wish to see that"

Danny's eyes rolled as he looked at Allie "I'm so tired," Danny said

Allie realized ould happen next "Stay awake, Danny!"

"But I'm so sleepy Just let me rest"

"Whatever you do, don't fall asleep!" Because she knew the moment he did, he would lapse into nine months of hibernation If he fell asleep, he would becolohichworld

Allie knehat she had to do Without wasting an instant, she took Danny's soul and thrust hi him back into his own lifeless body The effect was instantaneous The ed back into hihed up an explosion of water The dead boy came back to life

Allie's scream of joy and relief could only be rab hi arm "Give him time"

Chainsaw rolled hihed up hed, coughed some more, then his eyes opened His s

"I'ht for hi hi at him in fury for what he had done, but Curtis's one He would be the victim of all this, but Allie could not save him She had saved Danny; she couldn't save everyone

She turned to Milos, as surprised, and maybe a little impressed, by what she had done for Danny

"Always the good Soood Samaritan'"

"Why does it o"

Allie didn't move "Do you think I would ever coave me your word"

"Then call an to circle behind her "I do not wish to take you by force," Milos said, "but if I have to, I will"

"You'll have to catch me first"

Allie ran, while behind her Mrs Rozelli said a quiet, thankful prayer as she carried her little boy into their home, and the deadspot at the botto

Chapter 35 Allie-Allie-Oxen-Free

The Union Avenue Bridge was narroays crowded, and nowhere near as efficient as the two interstate bridges that carried the bulk of the city's traffic over the Mississippi into Arkansas It was the oldest bridge in Memphis, first built for the transcontinental railroad, but it had been o to add lanes for automobile traffic on either side of the train trestle

Reports of its crues of the Mes for the living to worry about--like who killed the beauty queen, and who fathered the rock diva's baby

Still, the Union Avenue Bridge was an accident waiting to happen Of course so

While Milos was "freeing" Allie from Danny Rozelli's body, Jackin' Jill waited with Moose on the bridge--an ihts, ould be blown into the river by the Everlost wind--but Jill and Moose were safely packed into two fleshies They e, but their fleshies were road workers, and road workers have been known to just stand around on a regular basis

"What if Milos and Squirrel don't come?" Moose asked

"We can do this without them," Jill told him, annoyed by Milos's absence, and further irritated by her own fleshie's bad teeth and chewing tobacco breath