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"No," E about killing babies at a time like this Or ever"

"Baby Hitler," said Enoch "And talking loop theory is better than going into pointless hysterics" He was looking at Bronas cli debris this way and that

She turned and waved her arms at us "Over here!" she cried

Enoch shook his head "Soot an ymbryne to find"

"Over here!" Bronwyn shouted, louder this time "I can hear one of them!"

Emma looked atto irl beneath a slab of broken ceiling It had fallen across the bathtub, which recked but had not entirely collapsed Cowering inside was Esme--wet, filthy, and traumatized--but alive The tub had protected her, just like her sister proh for E to E "Where’s my sister?" she said "Where’s Sa her back and forth

"We’re going to get you to a hospital Sa later" That was a lie, of course, and I could see E as she told it That we had survived and the little girl had also were two reedy

But then a thirdlike one: her sister answered

"I’irl shouted, and we all looked up

Sa fro down at a forty-five-degree angle Sah for any of us to reach

"Let go!" Emma said "We’ll catch you!"

"I can’t!"

Then I looked more closely and sahy she couldn’t, and I nearly fainted

Sa onto the beah the center of her body And yet her eyes were open, and she was blinking alertly in our direction

"I appear to be stuck," she said calmly

I was sure Sam would die at any moment She was in shock, so she felt no pain, but pretty soon the adrenaline puh her systeet my sister down!" Es staircase to the ruined ceiling, then reached out to grab onto the beath was able to angle the bea the rubble below This allowed Enoch and Hugh to reach Saently, slide her forward until she caarded the hole in her chest dully It was nearly six inches in diameter and perfectly round, like the beam she’d been impaled on, and yet it didn’t seem to concern her much

Esme broke away fro her arirl’s waist "Thank Heaven you’re all right!"