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He stuh her metal cuffs, which fell away from her hands in a deforun on e, but before he could fire, Emma came at hiers so hot they un and collapsed, screa

All this happened very quickly, in aat us Nearly everyone else was on the train now--all but Bronwyn and the blind brothers, who had never been cuffed and werethat ere about to be shot to death, Bronwyn did so under any other circumstances: she slapped the older brother hard across the face, then took the younger one and wrenched hihly away from the older

The moment their connection was severed, they let out a screah the station like a tornado of pure energy--blowing Elasses, eclipsing most of the frequencies h-pitched Eeeeeeeeee …

I saw all the s of the train break and the LED screens shiver to knife shards and the glass light tubes along the roof explode, so that ere plunged for aof ehts

I had fallen ontoSo me backwards by the collar, away from the train, and I couldn’t quite reh to resist Beneath the ringing in o!"

I felt soged into a phone booth Emma was there, too, folded into a ball in the corner, semiconscious

"Pull your legs up," I heard a fa a short, furry thing with a pushedin snout and a jowly s into the booth, h toI saw, in the hellish red flashing, was Miss Wren being shoved into the train car and the doors snapping closed, and all unpoint, framed by the shattered s of the train, surrounded by men hite eyes

Then the train roared away into the darkness, and was gone

I startled awake to a tongue licking

The door of the phone booth had been pulled closed, and the three of us were cra

"They’re gone," I said

"Yes, but we can’t stay here They’ll coo"

"I don’t think I can stand up just yet"

The dog had a cut on his nose, and a hunk of one ear was h hell, too

I felt a tickle against , but was too tired to look and see what it was My head was heavy as a boulder

"Don’t go to sleep again," said the dog, and then he turned to Eain This tiht and reached for it

It wasit out of nal almost nonexistent The screen read: DAD (177 MISSED CALLS)

If I hadn’t been so groggy, I probably wouldn’t have answered At any ood ti straight, and anyti, my old Pavlovian impulse was to pick it up