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Peeved, Jack clicked the TV off and sat at the foot of the indulgent bed and sulked But the shakes had abated enough that she could sit up It was a breather, nothingpoint--and she didn’t knohether she could take it

Confused, LB turned to the TV "She told me she hallucinates," LB said

"That’s not the withdrawal," Silas said, his head down over the open bag

"No, I’m schizophrenic," she said "But Silas says the voices inin his bag "I have soer You want it now?"

"Why not," she said, and LB frowned, clearly thinking it was a ht knock you out," Silas said, and her eyes slid to hiled the safety seal off

"Nicotine and now barbiturates?" LB asked "Why didn’t you just get soot led two into his palrabbed the bottle instead of the two pills, shaking them into her mouth like candy

"That’s why," Silas said when she handed the half-einal two pills back into it "That’s too han closer "You got anything to wash it doith?"

"Well" Silas hedged, a bottle of what looked like cough syrup in his hand He started to put it back in the bag, and Peri snatched it out of his grip Her storitted her teeth as the click-click of the seal breaking see harder to focus, and a lethargic, hot sensation was coursing through herthe to kill yourself taking it all at once like that," Silas said, but that he was even saying it meant she hadn’t crossed the line--yet

"Then at least it will be over" Ignoring LB’s worried frown, she tilted her head back and the sweet, syrupy alcohol slipped down It burned, tripping her gag reflex She coughed, fending off Silas’s help as her eyes watered

"She shouldn’t bethose," LB said, and Silas patted her back

"I know, but she’s going to throw up in about fifteen ets into her syste to kill her Probably"