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"You don’t want to do this," Will said as a second torch was lit "It will only bring the police"

One of the ibberish, his upturned palone stiff Spittle foa attention before the Beast can rise! He will be angry with you!" Will continued desperately The torches had all been lit Two of the rabbed his shovel, ready to fight

"Quiet the deceivers!" Jacob Call ordered Thetheo and we’ll never coain and the boy cocked his rifle, ready to take his shot They were trapped Helpless They’d co world would win, just as it had the day her brother was blown apart, leaving nothing to bury and everything to ood as dead

"The Lord will brook no weakness in his chosen," the boy shouted, and solared at the s, triuht She spat in his eye

"Then that son of a bitch will really like rowled With one quick rave, where the fla his corpse ablaze

"Run!" she yelled and took off into the woods at a clip

The action and the startling heat of the blaze stunned the new faithful of Brethren into a few necessary seconds of stasis as they tried to decide which was iving chase It was enough for a head start

"This way!" Evie shouted, racing down the hill in a direction she hoped was correct, for it had gotten darker, giving the woods a uniformity of color and appearance that made it hard to knohere they were

"Will! Jericho!" she called

"Here!" Jericho shouted back, and she saw his shirt off to the right

They ran together as a pack, Evie still clutching the pendant in her fist The wind picked up, driving into thery voices She leaned into it, pushing back The crack of a rifle sounded on the ridge above the

"Where’s… the… car?" Evie huffed out

"This way!" Jericho dragged her after hilimpsed the Ford in the trees and ran to it as if it were a lifeboat

Will ripped open the driver’s-side door and slid behind the wheel, fingers seeking out the clutch "Why won’t it start?" he growled