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Leave! I tried to say My jaas clenched, the h the White Noise was still running through the electricity Leave!
I had never done this before, and there was no way to know if it would actually work--but what did I have to lose now? Hisatto do this It is going to work
Martin had said that he pushed feelings into people, but my abilities didn’t work that way, and they never had I only saw ies
But I’d never tried to do anything else I had never wanted to, before this moment Because if I couldn’t help these kids, if I couldn’t save theood was I? What point did I even have? Do it Just do it
I i up his radio--every detail, frolasses to the way his jeans would wrinkle I iined hie of the road, into the wild
And when I released ers from his arm, one by one, that’s exactly what he did He walked away, and each step brought a new jolt of shock I had done that Me
I turned to where black srass and hidden edges in a thick, ugly blanket Then, I ree clearly now as I limped forward The pickup truck, which at one point had been parked beside Betty, was now several hundred feet away, resting in the een was on its side in front of it, a heap of twistedwildly, belching out thick s
It rammed it, I realized The truck rammed it out of the way
I followed the trail of tire lass, but I only found Truck Driver What was left of hirass; I couldn’t tell where one lian and the other ended None of theht place His elbows stuck up fros He had been ra cold and brittle wrapped itself aroundme back out of the haze of smoke once I confirmed Zu wasn’t in either car I waited until I cleared the heaviest of the s up what little food I had in my stomach
It was only when I looked up that I finally saw her, sitting on the road just beside Betty, her back slumped forward, her head bowed, but alive--alive and safe My ain Zu looked up, panting As I stumbled closer, the smoke revealed her in pieces: bloodshot eyes, a cut on her forehead, tears strea down her dirt-stained cheeks
My head throbbed in time with my heartbeat as I knelt down in front of her, and for several agonizing seconds, it was all that I could hear
"O…kay?" I asked,like mush
Her teeth chattered as she nodded