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He smiled faintly "I felt you early on You were furious"

"You felt that? But I wasn’t in control of it then!"

"Your rage was enorhting Later the Book tried to pretend it was shifting back and forth between you and it, and I played along but I could sense only the Book at that time The only other time I felt you hen I caleaasped "You could feel me when I was like that--stripped of all eth Powerful Resolute Beautiful

I droppedinside Beneath me lay the only man that could probably ever understand what I’d become at that moment, and could admire it It would have terrifiedthat et the job done He found th beautiful My monster and his beast; they liked each other

"We have to make plans to move humans off world, Jericho" I turned my mind away from myself and toward our many problems "This planet may die, but that doesn’t mean the end of the human race They can live on another world, colonize"

"Ryodan and I are already on it Years ago we mapped paths in the Silvers to worlds that could sustain huht one day become more hostile than we desired" He was silent a ht one day cease to exist entirely We’ve never faced the risk of permanent death until recently Now all of us face the threat of complete annihilation"

Or eternal hell Reborn in a black hole to die again and again I traced le of his jaw, touched his lips, vowing silently that I would never let that happen

He caught er then said, "When you think of the lives your opening the Sinsar Dubh cost, think also that if you had not, you would not have becoic that may save this world"

"You think the lives of the few are worth the lives of the many"

"The universe works in in to see a grander purpose and pattern, larger than any of us"

"The only way that grander purpose works for e to save the Earth I don’t knohat I have or how to use it"

"We’ll figure it out But if it looks like we can’t, you’re going off world, too"