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For a h He laughed and laughed, his cackles bouncing off the walls, until finally he fell out of his chair

Then Enoch said, "I simply have no words Wait--no--I do! Horace, that is thethat I’ve ever heard"

"But it is possible," Horace insisted

"Yes It’s also possible that the moon is u hts will do with us once free to do anything? Colancing at Olive

"If they can handle it, I can, too," she said

"Fair warning," the clown shrugged "Follow us"

"I wouldn’t follow you off a sinking ship," said Melina, as just getting the shaking blind brothers to their feet again

"Stay, then," said the clown "Anyone who’d rather not go doith the ship, follow us"

The injured lay in mismatched beds in a ing glass eye There were three patients, if you could call them that--a man and to and drooling One of the wo, while the other writhed under her sheets, htmare So their distance in case whatever these people suffered frofrom bed to bed "I keep them sedated all the time now Otherwise they just bawl"

They had no obvious wounds There were no bloody bandages, no li with reddish liquid The room looked more like overflow from a psychiatric ward than a hospital

"What’s the matter with theht here by Miss Wren," answered the nurse "She found thehts had converted into some sort of uinea pigs in their unspeakable experiments What you see is the result"

"We found their old records," the clown said "They were kidnapped years ago by the wights Long assumed dead"

The nurse took a clipboard fro man’s bed "This fellow, Benteret, he’s supposed to be fluent in a hundred languages, but now he’ll only say one word--over and over again"

I crept closer, watching his lips Call, call, call, he was one

"That one there," the nurse said, pointing her clipboard at the irl "Her chart says she can fly, but I’ve never seen her so much as lift an inch out of that bed As for the other one, she’s meant to be invisible But she’s plain as day"

"Were they tortured?" Emma asked

"Obviously--they were tortured out of their ot how to be peculiar!"

"You could torture et how to be invisible"

"Show them the scars," said the clown to the nurse