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‘The doctor from Alcatraz has told Obadiah and the council that she is the Great One, the chosen one ill be our savior The rest of the camp doesn’t believe, but we of the Nen know that she edy’

‘She’s just a little girl’ I want to say the word normal, but I can’t

‘Please don’t stop this,’ says the wo ‘Please don’t interfere If you reject raced’ Her eyes actually fill with tears ‘Please allow reatest contribution and the greatest honor I could have in this life’

I stand there withto say

My baby sister, though, doesn’t have any proble her down She shyly shakes her head no and crosses her legs, sitting in her monk pose We’d always called her our little Buddha since she decided to be a vegetarian when she was only three

Tears stream down the woman’s cheeks ‘I understand You have different plans for ets up slowly and ties her sheet firlare

The woe

My e anything, you know,’ she says to o back and find the next one in line’

‘Mom, no’

‘They want to do this It’s an honor for them Besides,’ she turns to follow the woman, ‘they come with their own sheet for easy cleanup’

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‘You knohere this church with the stained glass is?’ asks Raffe

‘What?’ I’ about the cult and the e

‘The church?’ Raffe looks like he wants to wave his hand in front of lass?’

‘There are a couple of churches don We can just walk to there fro to ot that Who and why?’

‘I’d like to find out’ I can tell by Raffe’s shuttered expression and the tone of his voice that he probably already has a good guess

‘Is this an angel who knohere the Resistance caet the word out through humans but not likely to know about the camp He was probably sent to the church by someone like her’ He nods in the direction that the cult wo Raffe to thisthe caing Mo to her locusts perched on the branches above her I walk over to her ‘If I leave for a little while, are you going to be okay on your own?’

She nods Froe of the shadows, Moe is better off with or without her, but since Mo back alone, we ans

I walk back to Raffe ‘I’o find that church’

I’m not as familiar with don Palo Alto as I aer than I expect to find the churches The first one only has a tiny strip of stained glass, and I’ that’s not the one they lass,’ I assulass