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Rhage rubbed his hair so hard his fingers were fuzzy when he stopped "You wouldn’t understand You’re never going to be in h Whether you had a hand in birthing them or you volunteer to take thee stared at the closed door in front of hi scared What if there’s so? That’s what Doc Jane is worried about, you know She’s worried Bitty’s transition will ruin her ar to ah the foyer ine her in a wheelchair that was operated by her blowing into a tube It just killed hi about?" Z derowth plates There were breaks that occurred right along"--He hs, his forearrowth plates, and they healed wrong? So when the change hits her, they’re liable to bust open and be unrepairable"

"Shit"

"Mary doesn’t know" Rhage went back to trying to pull his hair out "Yeah, I should have told her before now, but I just didn’t kno I told Doc Jane I would But I’ood news, I guess, but the longer they’re in there, theopen, and Doc Jane eed

One look at her face and he knew that the worst case had rolled out in there

"How bad is it?" Rhage gritted as he ju we can do?"

EIGHT

Turtleneck

Hours later, as Axe sat silently in the back of the "school bus," he tried to think of where in the hell he could get a turtleneck

Reaching up to his throat, he ed the side that he’d had tattooed and wondered if he could find one in his father’s shit And didn’t that e full of lights-out

He hadn’t been anywhere near his dad’s room since the death

"Fuck," he said to the blackened

To get out of his head, he looked away frootten bored of the don’t-touch- at Paradise as she sat beside herwas ever a party But yeah, it stung when you were forced toPeyton all castrated across the aisle froet in her head and help her out, be the savior he felt she needed You could practically read the thought bubbles floating around

Sorry, champ She had all she required

Novo stood up and walked down to Axe, shoving hi at two am When is your interview?"