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When I caught up to hiers closed around the soft, loose leather of his jacket’s sleeve At the slightest tug, Liam turned, his blue eyes lit up in surprise I took a step back and pulled my hand back to my side, shocked atat all, only feeling a very sharp, real need to be close to hi about this place doesn’t feel right" And it had nothing to do with the strange crying of the wind, or the birds high up in the old store’s rafters

"We’re okay," he said His back was to me, but he slipped his hand froh the darkness I didn’t knohether he meant to motionmyself to do either

We walked side by side toward the back right corner of the store; it seemed that this section of the store, with all of its hardware and lightbulbs, had been left somewhat alone, or at least hadn’t seemed as useful to the people who had picked the other shelves to the bone

I sahere ere headed i bright blue pool rafts as raham crackers and Hostess cupcakes were piled on top of a cooler, and on top of that was a sht

"Wow, I can’t believe this is still here" Liam stood a foot behind aze down to the dozens of indentations in the cracked white tile They were alh to distract round beneath his feet

My lips parted

"It’s old," Liam said, quickly, like that woulda s and reached up to take his hand

At alency light above that section of the back wall snapped back to full glare like a spotlight, illu with a very clear e: GET OUT NOW

The thick, uneven letters looked like they eeping The light crackled and went back out with a loud pop, but I still threw ht for the spray-painted e Because that sainst the Psi symbol and they came away sticky Black

Fresh paint

Liaest sensation of burning, right atthe front of Zu’s ridiculous dress, and then I was falling, and Liaht over, as if we had been nothing h the cracks in the tile