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"I can give you that, too You can save the Theo from the effects of his Triadverse self’s journey to your di Paul from the consequences of his journey into mine"

"You deliberatelysplintered Paul?"

Conley just grins wider "Guilty as charged"

Now I knohy the reminder didn’t work It could only have awakened Paul’s soul if--if his entire soul ithin this world’s version

But Wyatt Conley has torn Paul’s soul apart

Nothing I could screah There are no curses to carry the obscenity and fury in my heart

Instead, I throw ainst the wall, knocking the breath out of Conley in a surprised huff We both topple to the side, but I’m able to catch myself He lands flat on the stone, red robes a puddle around him I wish they were blood

A terrible calm comes over me Maybe this is what people feel like before they commit murder "You killed Paul"

"Not kill," Conley pants He’s still fighting to breathe nor at all"

"You tore his soul into pieces! You broke hirin isn’t as cocky when he’s sprawled on the floor "But you can put hiain"

What does heI’ve never seen before

"Reminders can serve another function, it turns out," Conley says "They can reawaken soht you’d lost Paul, but you’ve already rescued his on this chain, in a locket I hold in rip his robes in one fist "Tell me where you hid the other splinters of Paul’s soul"

"If you want that inforhts ago, at the hospital, my parents were able to stay with Theo, while Paul and I were stuck in the ER waiting area If I ran a hospital, I would try toInstead, the rooned to punish us: stark fluorescent light, uncoazines at least a year old, and a television blaring in the corner with soo on the show

Paul and I held hands, but ere too freaked out to co on

I whispered, "Theo never said anything about still feeling bad He ad like this"

"He hasn’t confided in ray tennis shoes; he even has to buy his footwear secondhand "I believed his silence was about you About us It never occurred toelse"

All the aardness of the past three months--all the odd silences, the times Theo didn’t come around e expected him--why did I assume that was all about ht Theo was jealous, or at least hurt, I never looked deeper I didn’t ask the questions I should’ve asked All the while, Theo suffered alone

Paul murh for us to see it" True But it was ans were there I failed to put theether" He slumped forward in his chair, shoulders hunched, like he’d just picked up so as ht--after what happened, I thought Theo siether But I should’ve known he’d never skip spring break"