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"Katy!" Archer’s voice traveled fro?"

My pace picked up as I neared the collapsed display of candy bars Snack bags crunched under my feet Mypain radiating froround

Wind picked up, whipping the long, loose strands of hair aroundfroe of the destroyed snack aisle

I stepped to the side, just a foot or two, and looked up the aisle to the end My heart stopped My entire world ca pause

"Dammit!" shouted Archer, his voice closer "No!"

But it was too late

I saw him

And he saw me

He stood at the end of the aisle in his true forht as a diamond He didn’t look any different than the rest of the Luxen, but every ounce ofkneas him The very cells that made me who I was snapped alive and cried out for hi I’d ever seen Tall and shining like a thousand suns, edges shi a faint red

I took a step forward at the same moment he did, and I reached out to him the e could, because when he had healed ether Forever

Daeh the connection

He disappeared fro too fast for even me to track

"Kat!" Archer yelled At the sa in my head in a deeper, ss attached to my heart to pull taut

War face-to-face with dazzling emerald-colored eyes; skin that seemed to always be tan, nocheekbones; and unruly black hair that brushed equally dark eyebrows

Full lips tipped up at the corners tightly

It wasn’t Daeood head and a half taller, Dawson locked his eyes with ht I saw a flicker of reht rushed fro the entire orb of his eyes white Static traveled across his cheeks, forers of electricity

There was a flash of intense light, a shocking wave of heat that see

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