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Skye realized more fully than she ever had before that Dakota wasn’t the only one who had died that night; their family, as they had known it, had died, too

Quietly she said, "The afterward isn’t easy for the rest of us"

"I know I’ for behaving so recklessly, or si her how badly he felt, it didn’t matter Dakota was here--as h

Dakota said, "You know you can’t stay here"

"With you?" The thought of leaving her brother again, when she’d only now found hi "I don’t want to leave you"

"You can find ain anytime, now that you kno," Dakota said "You’re the path, Skye The gateway between our worlds You can always talk to me; you can always talk to any of us And trustto talk to you … okay, , let’s say"

"I can talk to the dead now?"

"The dead who have so to say And I don’tto be the real deal"

"Am I supposed to--?" Well, now she had soinal to speak up about on career day "Where is this gift supposed to take o, sis But none of that ood now"

If she froze to death, he ain--still at a distance, but enough to feel the dangerous nu her liain?"

Dakota gave her that lopsided grin that always made her want to set rid of one from a place of ultimate fear to a place where fear didn’t even exist If the only danger was death, that was no danger at all, not in the end "I love you, Dakota I always felt like I never said it enough"

"Love you, too And yeah--nobody ever says it enough Nobody in the world But I always knew you loved me Except maybe that time you stole my skateboard" His expression was half tenderness, half exasperation "Will you save yourself already?"