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"Call the h I had known her to be there "I want the whole dear family here for this event" I considered a quick slide Go out Grab Adam Get anywhere the hell away from here E I’ll round before you can even blink Now call them"
"Do as your mother tells you Call them, sister Call your aunts Call the ape’s lover"
"You arebehind her skirt," I said,my fear "You’d better hope I never catch you out alone I will rip your big bad wolf costuht off you"
He took a step towardso that his ic than you are"
"I ain’t talking about using h, children," E even as he took a step closer to Eh his hair and then trailed them down his naked back "Shhh" She soothed hiainst theShe whistled three discordant notes, then repeated the sequence twice
From out near the horizon, where by now I knew the sun should soon rise, a furious shrieking caht, fading to a deep purple, the shade of Adam’s bruised skin, and then any hope of color was lost, repelled by storm clouds that had arisen from nowhere
"A few simple sounds," Ee nature to do what it already wanted to do anyway The water was already so war for a touch to arouse it So easy to start, so hard to end" The winds began to whip up whitecaps "What do you think, Josef?"
"At this rate, it will only ory four by the ti out his head over the railing to assess the growing storm "I want a five"
"And so you shall have it," she said She whistled again, and this ti shriller She kept it up until I thought my eardrums would burst, but then the soundon its o," Emily said "Remember, I tried to avoid this, but you leftNo time for alerts No evacuation," Joe said "The destruction will be spectacular"
The clouds continued to thicken and blacken, and the first flash of lightening shocked the sky "You have to stop this"
"Oh, no, hter If you want this stopped, you will have to be the one to stop it" She smiled at me "I know that you canthat is, if you are allowed"
"What do you mean if I am allowed?"
"Ask the Duvals They could have turned Katrina away fro it to a less populated area Or they could have used their ic to help the levees hold But the anchors wouldn’t allow your cousins to save their home, just as they will not allow you to save yours"