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‘Are you sure this ork?’ asks Dee with a frown ‘If they go after the Golden Gate--’

‘They won’t,’ I say ‘I know theht is’

‘She knows them, man,’ says Due’ He nods, then frowns as the implications hit him ‘Wait a minute’

‘Are you sure that people will listen?’ I ask

‘Oh, they’ll listen,’ says Dee ‘If there’s one thing that us huossip Word spreads – and everybody’s heard of you’

‘They’ve heard of your mom and sister too,’ says Dum ‘But that’s another story’

‘They’ll coet into an SUV big enough to have two backseats I slide into the back and notice the soft leather, the tinted s, the first-class stereo Things we took for granted that we’ll never have again

Paige is flying in the ar on a bus with a bunch of cultI don’t knohat toto worry about the safety of anyone on that bus, it’d be them, not my mom

My recorded announcement tells people that we have a plan But we don’t, not really All we know is that soe while everyone else crosses the channel spanned by the Golden Gate Bridge

I squeeze into the backseat with the last reether One is a wolobal distribution for Apple, and the other is an ex-uy who calls hilances at me He’s made it clear that he doesn’t believe a word of the wild stories going around about me And even if any of it is true, he still thinks I’ on the desperate hopes of the people’

But he’s here to help as best he can, and that’s all I can ask for I just wish he’d stop giving ht

Doc and Sanjay slide into the seats behind us It’s not surprising that the two of the since they’re both researchers Sanjay see seen with Doc

The two councilhere, but no one else has Doc’s knowledge of angels and monsters Doc’s bruises look just as bad as the last time I saw hi to ht now

The twins slide into the driver’s and passenger’s seat in front of us They have newly dyed blue hair It’s not entirely blue but streaked and splotched over their blond as if they didn’t have enough tiht

‘What’s up with your hair?’ I ask ‘Aren’t you worried you’ll be spotted by angels flying above with all that blue?’