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In the end, exhaustion won out Iabout as lovely as a wilted head of lettuce, just as Liarinned "Must be tiring being the big hero"

I waved hi to quiet the small, ridiculous buzz of happiness into be nice

"Good thing we had the ladies there to take care of business," he continued, turning to Chubs "Otherwise you and I would be rolling around in the bed of a truck, halfway back to Ohio"

Chubs only grunted, his coloring still faintly gray

Liaed pink froers still see every so often, but his eyes had lost that cloudy, unfocused look Considering it was his first ti ear-tased by the White Noise, Liaht, team," he said, slowly "Time for a Betty vote"

"No!" Chubs startled back to life "I know exactly where you’re going with this, and I know I’ to be overruled, and I--"

"All those in favor of letting our girl wonder stay with us for the ti, raise your hand"

Both Liam and Zu raised their hands immediately Zu looked at ht next to Chubs’s glowering face

"We don’t know anything about her--hell, we don’t know that what she has told us is even true!" he objected "She could be a psychopath who kills us in our sleep, or calls her League buddies in just e let our guard down"

"Gee, thanks," I said dryly, half flattered he thought I was capable of that level of scheer she stays with us," he added, "the ue will catch up to us, and you knohat they do to their kids!"

"They won’t catch up with us," Liaether, we’ll be fine"

"No No, no, no, no, no," Chubs said "I want to register h the two of you alin"

"Well, don’t be a bad sport about it," Liam said "This is democracy in action"

"Are you sure?" I asked

"Of course I aht of dropping you off at some back-of-beyond Greyhound station with no ot where you’re going safe and sound"