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"Me too Dad pays me the sah preparing hi else that would hurt "Don’t worry We can do it"

It was too ile her hold on her emotions was until that moment, when her throat choked up and her hands started to shake

Verlaine leaned closer to her "Hey Are you okay?"

"I don’t deserve you guys"

Mateo’s fingers closed around hers His touch anchored her again, as though she could once round beneath her

Verlaine said, "Well, no kidding We are pretty awesoh

I shall never understand the ht

Captive’s Sound had been turned upside down by these strange people ielded needles and microscopes, ould try to find a cure for Elizabeth’s dark ic They would try and fail, and yet he adh that was, and fragile as the memories had becoues and pande down lives the way a scythe ainst disease and death

Not that you could ever defeat fate Death waited; that would never change But Asa liked that huuided; he thought of it as valiant

What bewildered hialvanized theht at least a feould recognize the in to suspect others in their lamours had seen to that But he’d expected to see at least a little randoinalized Torches Pitchforks The classics

Instead the people of Captive’s Sound had been stunned into passivity They’d turned as stupefied as rabbits caught in a hunter’s snare All around hi What little fire remained in them only sparked when they had to line up for supplies, food, and the like Now that stores and restaurants couldn’t receive new ships and vans read CDC were the only ones who could provide the basics of life They couldn’t iet

They were about to learn, courtesy of Elizabeth

He ought to have delighted in that, reveled in the explosion of fear and fury that was to come Instead he could only think of Verlaine trapped in the midst of it