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‘You’d be surprised Just because I don’t have a problem on the outside visible for the world to see doesn’t mean I’m not messed up on the inside That can be just as hard to deal with’

‘Sparecompared to what I feel’

‘Gee, okay,’ I say ‘You’re not at all ing in self-centeredness I see that now’

‘Listen, kid I haven’t talked to anyone in weeks I thought I missed it, but now you’ve reminded me that I really don’t’

The ain ‘Why should I help you when no one bothers to help ’

‘Yeah, one that wants to live If I let you go, they’ll coo, you won’t feel quite so hu human isn’t about whether you fit in or look like the rest of us It’s about who you are and what you’re willing to do or not do’

‘Humans kill all the time’

‘Not decent ones’

Outside, the deserted world slides by I guess no one wants to go near the new aerie Word otten around about that apocalypse party

‘Did you really kill an angel?’ he asks

‘Yeah’ I’ve killed two

‘You’re the only one I’ve o?’

‘I return to my family and try to keep us all alive’

‘Everybody? You’d try to keep all of us alive?’

‘I in to keep everyone alive?’

‘If the only one who can kill an angel can’t do it, then who can?’

It’s a good question, one that takes me a minute to come up with an answer ‘Obadiah West can Hier’

‘History is filled with teenagers who lead the fight Joan of Arc Okita Soji, the saers when they began leading their arain, kid’

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We weave sedately through the abandoned cars on the road Occasionally, I see people scurrying ahen they spot our car Itdown the road Not that everybody hasn’t already picked an expensive car to try out, but that phase mostly ended in the first couple of weeks After that, it was all about keeping a low profile