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He rubbed his hand over his face "I’ve been reading through the Infinityglass research, the part you told me to focus on I talked to Liareed Michael was pacing, and it made my stomach threaten an out-of-body experience I sat

"If you follow it to its logical conclusion, trans things new Renewal Fixing what’s broken"

"I understand the definition Hallie does, too"

Being a so "Regeneration, especially if it happens that fast, could heal the continuu?" I asked

"I believe Hallie could heal the continuuh power to do that?" I heard the strain in ut

"If the rips continue to possess her and she continues to fight them, she’ll eventually burn out" He shoved his hands in his back pockets "The Skroll info proves the Infinityglass was neverindividual rips could’ve been eable, possibly her purpose Crowds of them, no Entire rip worlds, no"

His words echoed in ree with your theory They possess her because they want to live through her," he continued "But they want more than that They want her to fix thes from the Skroll shuffled into place Information I hadn’t understood in the context of an object "The aenerated cells she produces could heal the rifts in the continuum"

"Only if she’s inside it" Michael’s eyes clouded with concern "The rips areapart around us, Dune, and Hallie ht be the only one who can repair it"

She could repair it

But could she survive it?

Chapter 21

Hallie

"I aeneral, and there’s so to hold to any sort of societal standard, and I’h to say what’s on our mind, and I hope that’s okay" Emerson blurted all of this out in the ten seconds after the door shut behind her

"You are intense" Maybe she was overcoht, like Napoleon and his co for it I really, really admire that" My phone buzzed an alert I was supposed to have called Dad, but got distracted by Dune "Crap"

"Everything okay?" Emerson asked, and then she covered herisn’t okay I was referring to the ‘crap’ That you said When you said, ‘crap’ "

I laughed, deep and long, and realized I hadn’t in a while "I’ where you’ve been all my life"

"Um, committed At least for part of it" Eirl was so authentic she probably had a trademark stamped on her ass

"So explain it And do you et antsy after the possessions" Talk about things that sounded scary out of context

"Go for it" She sat down on the edge of my bed, and I sat down on the floor and started with h two sets of stretches, but she wasn’t talking