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When she repeated the process with the second man, I turned away and vomited messily into the ain She was suy," she kicked one er Still, explains why they went down so easy They didn’t hear us co the way they would’ve if they’d been cousins"

"What are you--"

"Co the two corpses like they didn’t uess they didn’t The men were dead They weren’t any fun to play with once they were dead

I sed hard, spat once to get the taste of vomit out of my mouth, and followed after her The open eyes of the dead men seemed to follow me, and I was more relieved than I could have believed possible when they passed out of sight behind us

We passed no rew Tansy had acted to keep us fro detained--or worse, since now I’d shown that I illing to betray Dr Banks at the request of people I barely knew--but that didn’tanyone she didn’t strictly have to She enjoyed it a little too much for me to be coally out into the salt estuary under the cliffs near the Golden Gate Bridge Tansy cli trail I scra infinitely uns

A familiar car was parked at the top of the cliff, an evennext to it Nathan’s hair was blown back by the wind co off the water, and his hands were tucked deep into the pockets of his jacket My relief grew so great that it felt liketo break loose and float away I started to step out into the open--

--only to coht ress "Tansy, what the hell…?"

"Shh," she said "Look" She nodded into the glooo cold

A reenery behind hiht reach hiht not

"Trust me," said Tansy "Can you do that?"

"I…" I stopped, sing "I can try"

"Good Nohen I say ‘run,’ you run Got it?" I nodded She ser barringmaniacally as she closed on the sleepwalkers Nathan turned toward the sound of her voice, and could only stare as she ran past him, slid across the hood of his car, and opened fire on the oncoht by any definition of the word There were more of them than Tansy had bullets, but they weren’t armed, and she had an uncanny knack for headshots, which dropped theed into the h to howl, "Get Sal in the car and get out of here!" Then she was gone, covered by the bodies of the sleepwalkers still on their feet It didn’t see the sleepwalkers were her cousins; they clawed and grabbed for her all the saer side door open by the ti nition, shouted, "Seat belt!" and hit the gas before I even had ti over the uneven ground of the parking lot I got my belt clicked home just before our tires dropped down to the street, and ere rolling smoothly into San Francisco, away from Tansy and the sleepwalkers, away fro

Nathan didn’t try to talk to e I assu for Dr Cale’s I didn’t care asover, he asked, "Did you get it?"