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"No!" The screaainst it so hard I could feel the blood vessels bursting "Emerson! Emerson!"

Poe didn’t watch e His expressionless cal corpse Then he dropped her to the ground and carelessly dusted off his hands

Grief and rage scrambled for purchase in ain, but it caught inme I kicked the veil repeatedly, over and over, until I hit the ground onfrom her throat Her eyes were open, but empty

Tiny Helpless

Gone

"You need to deliver a e to your father" Poe’s expression was blank He rera else "Find Jack Landers"

"Co her with you" I held h ht about his knife, and hoould get it away fro with everything inside hirind his heart into the floor with my heel

"If Jack is found, there’s a chance that everything that’s happened can be repaired Then the Hourglass can choose the time line on which it would like to continue If the request is refused, or not met, time will be rewound"

In Out In Out I had to breathe I had to make Poe think I wasn’t a threat so he’d come out of that veil He had to come out of the veil so I could destroy him "I don’t understand"

"Time will be rewound, and your time line will be chosen for you" Poe looked atslowly "There’s only one way to clean up the lass has made without consequences"

"There are already consequences" The flow of blood froe of Poe’s shoe He’d track her blood out of this restaurant and down the streets of Ivy Springs if he walked away

But he wouldn’t be walking away

"There’s a great possibility the continuum can be repaired without consequences to your personal time lines, and there are several time lines from which you can choose The one where your father is a pile of ash or the one where he’s restored Saoes for Michael And Emerson could be in a lass" It was as if he were ticking off sorocery list "You choose, or ill"

"Why botherEm’s time line as a threat? She’s dead" And you’re next

"Is she?"

Poe extended his ar the blade

The blood went froround in backwardto Poe’s arms The stain on her sweater faded from the bottom up, the pool of blood in her collarbone disappeared, but the life was still absent fro at e?"

"Yes" My voice was a pleading whisper "Please, yes"

Slowly, so slowly, the knife made a return path across Emerson’s neck The blood disappeared coain pulled at Poe’s arain

"You have till October thirty-first Midnight"

Poe lowered Em to her feet and smiled

I shook with the desire to jump him and peel his face off When they stepped out of the veil, I snatched her away and pulled her toAnything taken can be returned Anything given can be destroyed," Poe said, still sue said your dad would understand"

With that, he turned on his heel and left the Phone Co confused "What just …"