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"Good lord," I whispered "A ly and weird still Feeling was co to lose you quite a few ti Dr Saain made that same series of bizarre sounds he’d made earlier
"Gesundheit," I interrupted
"Sorry?"
"You sneezed"
My dad laughed "No, that’s your friend’s name With the tattoos"
I blinked at him, and then it hit me "You mean Blondie? With the Mohawk?"
"Yes, that’s not a sneeze It’s her name"
"Hure out what he’d said and how he’d said it "I think I’ll stick with Blondie"
Especially since, although everyone keeps telling me she’s my friend, I have yet to determine her status for ood vibe froht before ere attacked in Anyan’s driveway Yeah, she’d saved ain our trust?
Chuckling again, my dad shook his head ruefully "I had so Anyway, yeah, if she hadn’t been here, you would be dead It was her power that kept you going"
"Hinal’sme alive Not toI’d known, Blondie was a stranger And that’s what she was to me, until I could talk to her myself
In other words, Blondie and I needed to have a little chat
"And Dr Sam is the…" My voice trailed off, still not able to say the word in front of rin infectious "Yep A friend of Anyan’s Both of them have been wonderful" My dad started to make that funny combination of sounds, and then he stopped hi, but you needed to be kept fed and everything Dr Sa You’ll still be a little weak for a few days, but he said that if you woke up and had a swiood as new"
My dad said "if you woke up" so casually that h, he ht die He didn’t deserve to worry like that; he didn’t deserve that fear and pain
I nearly started crying again, but he stopped me hat he said next
"He healed otten hurt?
If those ood as new Like I was never sick a day in ht in my throat My dad’s condition had been a part of our lives for so long that I couldn’t iine what it would be like to have him heart-whole and healthy
"Really? Really healed?"
"Completely And Anyan ith me to my doctor, so that he could… What do you call it? Glala in the system Even followed me around so that all of Rockabill knows uy who has always been healthy’ "