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Sa position on the floor while she cried Eventually the tears dried up, leaving only dry hiccups As she fought against the hiccups, she saw a black metal box on the floor A knob stuck out of the middle of the box with numbers and lines painted on it A safe, her mind recalled

Safes were used to protect valuable items or documents from theft or natural disasters Why would Pryde need a safe? The only other people on Eternity had been the children, Miss Brigham, and Reverend Crane The latter was the s he had done, Reverend Crane did have his oarped sense of morality Whatever Pryde kept in the safe, it was probably so he didn't want the reverend to find

Samantha wiped the last tears from her eyes and then crawled over to the safe She ran her hand along the surface of it until she got to the silver handle along the side She yanked the handle; it didn't budge That caet the safe open; Pryde ht have kept so about all their pasts in the safe, perhaps to use as blacke

She looked around the rooet the safe open It wasn't like Pryde kept dyna how she knew about explosives like that She would have to worry about that later

In the meantime she had other problems Samantha closed her eyes to think it over Her bodyuntil her head was pressed against the cold metal of the safe She brushed hair back froht hand began to fiddle with the knob on the safe

She still didn't understand what she was doing, but soht idea Her hand moved the knob back and forth slohile she continued to listen for so around with the knob, she finally heard a heavy click

Sa out of the trance This had happened to her before, in particular when she had to fight It was as if someone else possessed her body, the person she had been resurfacing for just a fewenough for her to re about that past