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Peri’s leg hurt, and she ran her hand down the side of her calf Sticky? Her fingers were red

Crap When did I get shot?

"Fall back! Fall back now!" ca doorway, and Peri’s head snapped up It was Bill, and if he was leaving, he had so he wanted, because he sure as hell didn’t have her Ears ringing and the stink of gunpowder thick in her nose, Peri sank back down behind the desk, her hand cla as she watched a man crawl to the door If Bill was here, Allen probably was too This has potential

"Where’sfor the door Peri ducked, and when she looked up through the sifting dust, the crawlingangle

"I said fall back!" Peri heard Bill cry out again fro

"You okay?" Silas called as he found her, looking fantastic with that semiauto, but s froun shaking as she pointed it in their direction

"Shit, Fran! It’s "

"They have Taf!" she raged, face red and coiffed hair flying Fran was looking at Peri, and she felt herself blanch, sitting half behind a desk and holding her leg as it slowly leaked "They have ainst a shot-up couch and let her weapon slip fro to use her, hurt her until I give thehter!"

Peri’s hands were red as she ripped the silk couch throw to bind up her leg The bullet was still in there, but it hadn’t cut though anything but , but she loved her daughter Maybe they could find so with her own mother "Okay," she said, and Fran almost sobbed

"You’re shot," Silas said, pale, and Peri pushed him back with a bloody hand before he could touch it Why did they always try to touch it?

"I’ll be fine" But her stoet Taf," she said as she stood, reaching for the desk when vertigo threatened She could pass out later It doesn’t matter that I don’t remember why I care about her I feel I know

"Thank you," Fran whispered, and Peri glanced at the ceiling when a loud, ominous thump came from above Dust sifted down