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"It is a totally different culture for you, then"

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Or as close to it as you could coroan as he lay flat with his legs raised and held off the floor of an abandoned rooainst the cold concrete, legs extended out with heels six inches off the floor, palms down and by the hips Every , to the point where Axe’s teeth were knocking together and sas pouring off his face

At least they weren’t the only ones getting schooled

Everyone had gotten "killed," even Craeg

The Brother Rhage swung his flashlight away fro over to where Paradise and Peyton were doing push-ups, Marine-style … beforesit-ups

When it came to stuff like this, the rule was, you went to exhaustion, and no one wanted to no más first Even as Axe’s body was in a full-on fist of pain, he set his brain free, taking hi, to that human female and the audience He embedded his memory in the particulars, the feel of her under his hands, the taste of here to class had been rotating tires on a car, he would have been thinking about wrenches, radials, and hubcaps

He reht of Rhage’s torch splashed into Axe’s face like acid "Bkdw nbh, koy dwn skfg"

Axe tried to squeeze out a What? but it was like forcing a city bus through a keyhole

Rhage bent down and spoke slowly "You can stop, son You’re finished Everyone else has quit"