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"Picked this one up at a gas station in West Virginia, bargain price," Lee said "Last one on the shelf, sorry"

Mike laughed again, giving Chubs’s shoulder a squeeze before he hopped up the steps, ducking under a white sheet that had been strung up over the building’s sain

The enormous black Ψ painted there had stopped Zu dead in her tracks and turned her face a sickly shade I couldn’t move--couldn’t look away fro to shake the words loose

It was enough to stop Zu and me dead in our tracks, at least Alarave his friend a confused look

"What?" Mike asked, seeing our reactions

"Any reason in particular you’ve decorated this fine establishment with our mortal enemies’ symbol?" Liam said

It was the first time I had seen Mike’s expression drop the entire ti hardened in his eyes, so strained the muscles in his jaw "That’s our symbol, isn’t it? It’s Psi It should represent us, not them"

"How do you explain the black, then?" Liaht Everyone, in some form or another, had the color on the a black band around their arm, but others, and not just the ones that had hit the truck for supplies, were in head-to-toe black

"Black is the absence of all colors," Mike said "We don’t segregate by color here We all respect one another and our abilities, and we all help one another understand theht if anyone would be on board with that, it’d be you, Lee"

"Oh no, no, I am on board I am, like, captain of that ship," Liam said "I was just…confused, that’s all Black is the color Got it"

The screen door creaked open again Mike caught it with his foot "Co?"

Inside, I was surprised to feel a wave of heat hit hts on Electricity--I re the syste water, too?

The front roo, a few stacked ray plastic tubs The backrooht of a small, white-tiled kitchen Mike waved to the kids inside, ere turning whatever delicious creation was inside of their pots with long wooden spoons

The old store’s wood shelves were painted a dour green, but stuffed with a rainbow assorts of chips, pasta, and even ht of the boxes of cereal stacked high over our heads

I thought Chubs ht cry