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"To build a true bridge--a strong bridge, one capable of carrying the One Beneath to our world--I needed an agony far greater than the suffering of a thousand tormented bodies I needed the pain of the soul, of so e on the people in the hospital," Nadia said "You built it on their families Their friends You built it on the pain of every person ent through all this ti if the people they loved would live or die"

On Mrs Purdhy’s family On Kendall On Verlaine

Elizabeth said, "I knew you would see eventually You’re bright enough for that But I also knew you would see it too late"

Failing to understand Elizabeth’s --but what did it e isn’t complete, and those people are free They’ll wake up any oing to be happy again"

"The bridge is almost complete," Elizabeth replied, "and I need so little to finish it Really, if you’d left me one more hour, I could have left it at that"

It sounded like an admission of defeat, but it clearly wasn’t Nadia felt a nening wave of fear "You won’t get one more hour"

"No, I won’t But I reer I’ll have to give the threads a pull You’ve blunted inal spell, so this time I’ll have to act more decisively" Elizabeth lifted her hands "I’ll have to kill the that if she could just get to the stairwell, shedown to the ground at his feet, his hand still wrapped around her elbow too tightly for her to pull free

The betrayal stung evenin, she could only look up at hihtened and shouted, "Get away frory, but the shock of seeing soh to make the that’s happening around you, and you blah to try to help You go after someone you think doesn’t have anyone to defend her Well, you thought wrong" Asa let go of Verlaine’s arm so that he could step in front of her, between her and her would-be attackers "Get back before I h her then, and knew the rest had felt it, too Although there was no overt sign that Asa was so other than human, it had somehow become completely clear that he could stop theet past hi a venoly; their anger still simmered, but it was in check for now

The moment the last of them left the elevator bank, Asa towed her up to stand by his side Verlaine’s legs treed to stay upright His hands on her shoulders were coet out of here," he said "As far from this place as possible Now"

She shook her head "I’m part of Nadia’s spell That means I have to stay here"

"Of course," Asa breathed He understood now, and his expression shifted into horror "You could die"