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Bit was fine now, he told himself Safe here with him and Mary and the otherto be--

Just as Argyle was getting down in the back of the eighties-era lie saw that he and his fa back against the fabric-covered wall, the light fro over his face like flame from a fire

His blond-and-black hair was down around his shoulders, the si that a normal person would wear--which meant they should have been coers

Even froe’s iffy eyesight, it was very obvious Lassiter’s expression was grie wish for the inconceivable

"Tell me you’re here because there’s a Beaches joke you want to share," Rhage said roughly "Orfor me?"

Lassiter stayed silent for what felt like a year, but was probably little e’s ticker was on a broken field run in his chest, was a helluva co

"I want you to reel said … in a voice that made Walter Cronkite sound like a falsetto with his nuts in a vise "Keep your faith It’s all going to work out"

Rhage’s eyes snapped back to the casts "Havers told us the reset bones would heal in about six weeks And after that … I rowth spurt should be tolerated Even if there has to be some physical therapy afterward, or an operation, at that point, she has different anesthesia and painkiller options and--"

When he glanced back, the angel was gone

Frowning, Rhage twisted hi to the exit; it was as if he’d never been in the theater

"Rhage? You okay?"

As Mary spoke up in a groggy voice, he cranked back so he was facing the ain Shook his head Tried once more "Ah, yeah I’m fine Hey … ah, did you see Lassiter just now?"

"No? There’s no one in here but us?"

Rhage blinked and pulled an optical sweep of the dark space Was he even seeing this? Or had he i?

"Ah … okay Yeah Sure"

"Do you wantto eat?" His Mary Madonna leaned up his chest to set Doc Jane?"

All Rhage could do was stare at her beautiful face In the history of the world, there ht were extraordinary beauties, whose bone structure and curve of the lip, whose eyes and brows, equated in theattractiveness