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They never did

I never thought of ht I was kinda brave Choosing to live in the middle of nowhere, where I could be attacked at anyto myself I was never brave at all

I also wasn’t nearly as stupid as the people I love tend to be So I suppose that’s so to reassure me as I wave from the hile they all march off to die God, Buffy, why did you have to hire me? I could have worked for soh any of this And if you had to hire o off and leave me to deal with all of it alone?

--Froust 1, 2041 Unpublished

Hey, George Check this out

--Froust 1, 2041 Unpublished

Twenty-one

Either Dr Ki was uncannily good, because no one ca my tears on the sleeve of h the door, arguing with each other in low, urgent voices Neither of them looked in my direction

"Hi," I said, just in case they didn’t knoas there

"Hello, Miss Mason," said the fe I still couldn’t see her face, but I recognized her voice Kathleen "Is everything all right?"

"I don’t know if I’d go that far, but things have been worse" I stood, thestill for too long Everything had started to stiffen up "Ow, da the muscle of my left calf with both hands

That’s probably why the first bulleta silencer There was a unshot, and the technician who entered with Kathleen staggered back, sla across the chest of his formerly pristine white lab coat He looked down at it before raising his head and looking ata word he couldn’t quite push all the way out into the world It was George

It took the sound of his body hitting the floor to oes down, they don’t stay down for long, and when they get back up, they tend to bethan they are in finding out who shot the her away from the body