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Yeah, I still had enough juice in round, the one he sought to terrify us with because of that flickering flame and its ominous portent, would onlyoverhead

Krah my tears were poisonous "I will burn thee had been sent, and now, it was ti possum and kick sorabbed the lantern, the look in his eyes tellingthis time What he felt in my tears must have warned him that it wasn't worth the risk to rape and torture me first But because he'd been off by a centimeter or so when he stabbed the silver knife intotheh to shred my heart, and before Kramer could correct that error, I yanked the blade out Two hard jerks werebut the dried cornhusks at the bottom of the empty pole to catch fire when Kramer threw the lantern at asoline Kra soaked theniting, but he'd spilled gasoline on Lisa and Francine, too And the cornstalks around us, dried and crackling from the lateness of the season, were like tall, skinnyme with the lantern Sarah took one look at the fla as fast as she could I ran to Francine, knocking her pole over with a linebacker tackle and ripping the asped in pain behind her gag, but Krarisly intentions so easily He snatched at the burning husks on the ground and threw one at us

The spot where her pole had been flared with the contact froues, but I yanked her away in ti her a shove for emphasis Lisa's muffled screams told me what I already knew-that Kra husk at her, not even seeed in the flames

I didn't have time to knock her out of the way It had taken precious seconds to free Francine and get her safely out of the sodden, fla bundle arced toward Lisa and I kneith crystal clarity, the only thing I could do to save her Instead of ai woman helplessly chained to the pole, I threwit with

Fla into an avalanche of fire once they reached asoline-soaked clothes Pain so intense it robbedto cover my body in an instant In the brief moments it took theht up into the sky, doing the worst thing possible by flying and fanning the flames It hadn't even been a conscious decision-all my primal mind kneas that it wanted away fro as pain exploded in every nerve ending, I forced an to roll as fast as I could away from Kramer and the others

You'll heal, you'll heal, you'll heal I clung to that litany whileeaten away by those merciless flames I couldn't see, couldn't hear, but I could feel everything, including the excruciating inner searing when I screaain, and it drew fla over what felt like razors ripping away at as left ofthat spared no inch of nored those urges and kept rolling

After what felt like a thousand years, I realized I could see again I was tucked into the fetal position, still rolling blindly across the fields I usedpatches of fire on my feet where my boots had melted around theuish on top of as already , but I kept swatting at the flames until they were out and all the shoe remains were off my feet

For a dazed ht I was so my black jeans and blouse But then I realized the dark tatters hanging over me weren't clothes-it waspain, I wanted to vomit and screahting for their lives against a maniac determined to murder them No matter what I looked like or howover the fire's ravages or waiting until I finished healing tointo that fiery projectile had been for nothing

I got up, unable to stuff backskin You'll heal, I repeated ruthlessly, then tried to force myself into the air At the first atte into my still-partially-charred skin when I crashed With another pained gasp, I got back up and tried again, flinging myself forward

This time, I h for loas I ran in that direction, giving up on flying, the pain slowly starting to ease Normally vampire injuries healed ale the fla several minutes Or it hurt so badly that it felt that way

I burst into the triangular clearing right as flaetation at the base of Lisa's pole Without slowing down, I barreled into her and lifted upward at the saround, but the iasoline ignited and shot up the pole, she was already several feet above it, safely free of the flaht before we crashed down, I saw that she stared at me with abject terror Then I flipped so I'd take the bulk of the landing, stuffing back a shout as the ih me, and the husks felt like they ripped all the new skin offher against the worst of the crash by punching and kicking h fall had knocked her gag loose, so she screa and kicking e to crawl back into the fetal position and concentrated on catching her hands instead