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"I know," I said

"Come on" Daniels took a step back froht, we can start looking for where helouder and more frequent, and I knew I’d better hurry and follow hi it, we all went upstairs There wasn’ton its side and used that to block the steps

"We’re not eating tonight," Boden told us "No light No food No sound We will take turns keeping watch all night The rest of you, just get some sleep I’ll take the first watch"

For safety, we all slept in one rooe Bishop and Teddy cleared away asit all to one side of the room, and we all lay down in the h I couldn’t sleep Not after what I’d seen The compound was destroyed Blue was a zoave up on sleep pretty quickly and went out to take over Boden’s post for hi on the roof in front of it The moon was full above us, and he had a clear view of the street and area around us

"You want to co out the

"No You sleep" He sat cross-legged with the gun lying across his lap and didn’t look back at h theand slid down the roof so I was sitting next to hi sleep"

"I’m not tired yet, either"

Ripley had spotted me on the roof, and she stood on the sidewalk below us, swishing her tail and looking confused

"Where’d you get that cat anyway?" Boden asked

"Found her" I pulled my knees up to my chest and wrapped as show or so"

She paced the sidewalk in front of us, trying to figure out how to get up to where I was She grunted a few ti her tail

"I’m sorry about your brother," Boden said

I chewed the inside ofto let ive up hope and get upset so soon

"I’," I said finally

"What I told Nolita was true It orth the risk" He paused "We won’t last that long unless we findafter that There wasn’t anything to talk about, except how iht be, and that didn’t sound like fun

Ripley eventually gave up trying to get up on the roof and just lay down on the sidewalk I didn’t see anyone around, and other than the death groans, I didn’t hear anything