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Curran drove out of the parking lot The streets flashed by I opened the glove co knives According to the uns I didn’t get along that ith tech-related projectile weapons in general I could ive me a rifle and I’d miss an elephant from three feet away

Curran’s face was cal to take over the Guild?" I asked

"Yes, we are Well, I alanced at me "You should join oing to drop everything and crush the Four Horsemen," Curran said "Givehim is all that matters Besides, if I’d decided to pull Carver’s spine out of his body, I would’ve done it already"

"Can you actually do that?"

Curran frowned "I don’t know I mean theoretically if you broke the spine above the pelvis, you could, but then there are ribsI’ll have to try it so Not at all "What do you suppose normal people talk about on their car rides?"

"I have no idea Tell hed Once Curran focused on a target, getting hi train to the side

"Bob is a shark I read so or they drown I have no idea if that’s true, but I can tell you: Bob keeps swiht is an opportunity Every tihouls I learned froh"

A htly It was a tiny h was still a problem for both of us

"Bob is like ood, but he isn’t as fast or strong as he used to be’ But Bob is like one of thosetheir bodies for years When he needs to, he moves fast, because he doesn’t think about it He just does it I once saw hier, faster, and better trained A group of seven uy didn’t like the way it went down He got it into his head to fight with Bob His exact words were, ‘I’ll beat the shit out of you and make you eat it with your face’"

Curran suy put his hands on hiuy said it was fine with hi the fight He went for fun cheap shots A slap on the cheek A quick kick to the shin Finally the guy lost his patience and the , he went for Bob’s throat Bob alet his hands around his neck and then hit him really fast with the flat of his hand in the Ada Thirty seconds and he started getting sluggish Bob worked hiuy went down Five minutes later the Guild paraht and the blunt-force trauma to the trachea caused inflammation His windpipe had swollen shut"

"Did he survive?"

"He did He : while the paran the trachea, Bob went to the er Bob’s not really an asshole, until you put your hands on him or try to screw hi hiht be useful, and one should never throay good manpower"

"If I didn’t know better, I’d say in your head you already took over the Guild, restructured it, and found a place for Bob in it"

He s wordalarmed me The Guild had no idea as about to hit it

We turned onto Chaainst the dashboard as our Jeep hit a buht, and the Jeep screeched to a halt My seat belt jerked e two-story house of brown brick rose at the end of a driveway The house had been built pre-Shift, before y started their crazy waltz Modern builders kept their s s eyes, and an appetite for hu you in the bedroom after a hard day of work The s of this house were large enough for Curran in his beast forh Mrs Oswald co two-inch steel bars over theeabove the garage were bent to the sides, as if soreat force