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And whenhi the way Chubs’s voice followedto take too h the entryway and out the door that was barely hanging from its fraling to get around the s His battered face isted with grief and fear, and he could barely lie

"Lee!" The word exploded out of led over the tree, blindly fighting his way through its leaves and branches Seeingit all at once "Oh my God!" I threw my arms around his neck and nearly took us both down

"Thank you," he hispering, "thank you, thank you…" And then he was kissingaway the tears and soot, chanting my name

Liam wasn’t the only one who escaped, but he was the only one who caht for us as we sat in Clancy’s office, eating what food was left in the supply roo every fewthe address he had found for Jack’s dad

When the fighting had broken out, it was enough of a surprise that et to the cabins froates in time to make a real difference The ones ere off duty came to our cabin and forced him--"Carriedfor one of the hidden side trails that had been , not stopping until they reached that sahway that they had picked us up on

"There werecar and piled the ones that were scary bad into the back, to go find a hospital, but…"

"What about the rest of them?" I asked

"They split" Liam rubbed at his eyes and winced The skin there was still tender, bloo to black

"And why didn’t you?" Chubs demanded "What the hell is thethat there could still be PSFs?"

Liam only snorted "You think that mattered to me for a second when there was a chance the two of you were still here, too?"

We didn’t have tih to know that there was a chance they would double back and check for survivors The two of theure out how much food we could carry with us I tried to be useful, too, but I could feelupstairs, to Clancy’s desk

I finally gave into u the inside pocket of Liam’s jacket to make sure Jack’s and Chubs’s still-damp letters were there

There were two minutes left of the laptop’s battery The power icon was flashing, warning that reserves were low The screen dihts in the keyboard switched off I typed as fast as I could, searching the online White Pages for Ruby Ann Daly, Virginia Beach

No results

I tried again, just with her na did pop up, but it was for Salenized my parents’ address when I saw it

A minute and fifteen seconds I looked in the Web-site history for the site Chubs had talked about, the one that let you make calls, and typed in the phone nu

I don’t think I wanted to talk to her soto her wasn’t an option for s to take care of But I needed to know that she was still out there--that there was one more person in the world who remembered me