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Nine A total of only nine hits People in town had to be panicking Medical vans were parked all over the place, everyone had a relative in the hospital, and nobodyon Didn’t they have to be online, looking for infor to this town?

She tried to think of so that came to mind was the one comment she had to moderate, so she opened it up It read:

Awful, how only the most beloved members of the community have been struck down Mavis Purdhy with her twins at ho queen--Gary Turner, a caring father--and now so many more, but all of them so dearly missed It’s as if someone wanted to cause as ain, this amount of pain isn’t entirely hu from demons anted to taunt her

Verlaine hit Discard as Spam, then flopped down on her bed, pulled a pillow over her face, and wished the entire world would just go away

The last tiested that she was s too far

So this time, Nadia hadn’t told Verlaine about it

She had ducked behind a neighbor’s hedge, partly shrouded by a spell of shadow; this wouldn’t make her totally invisible, but it would make people less likely to turn her way Nadia wasn’t sure how long she’d have to wait She was pretty sure Elizabeth didn’t get out much Not likely to run to Costco, or join a book club Still, obviously Elizabeth left her house sometimes, and the next time she did, Nadia intended to seize the chance

Nadia had brought her phone and earbuds, a thick coat, and even a folding seat her dad used when he went ca haul

Which hy it surprised her so much when, not ten otten what it was like to feel weak

The ishly; her skin burned hat she dimly remembered as fever She wanted water to drink, so ht her old thirst had returned--but it was just this sickness having its ith her

"We call it infection," said the deh with the twenty-first century to understand infection?"

It hat modern people believed in, instead of evil spirits Fools "I want it done with"

"Then coh to a child; Elizabeth wished to scold him for it, but in truth the fever store in town has been sold out of every useful item since yesterday But my parents have supplies at my house"

"They are not your parents It is not your house"