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Heseveral seconds to adjust to the sudden flare, and then I watched as behind that light, he cocked his head to the side, studying id eyes of his "It’s you," he exhaled, forcing me to taste the sour combination of coffee and tobacco on his breath

"Siuy, but the hand cla, and the aruy jerked ure out a way to stop hiainst the rip on to Everywhere aroundof the ducts--was sheer and srasp

"Kyra!" Sih ht, but instead he said calmly, "The word," and somehow, even above all that fan noise, I heard hi vitally-critically-rasp it He’d just explained this, hadn’t he? "If I say the word," he’d toldbut noI was supposed to not do so

Yes! That was it

I claether, and at the exact saiven Simon earlier, the one Simon had made Jett assure hiht at my feet It was plain and plastic, and it just sat there, doing what looked like a whole lot of nothing

I glanced up at the guy, the one with the death grip on my wrist He looked blankly back atkey card Only he didn’t have the instructions for "the word" and he was still breathing

I didn’t even know if anything was happening at first, or as going to happen, but after a few seconds of looking back and forth between the card and the guy, I started to notice so woozy

Even if I hadn’t been able to hold er than everyone else--what happened next happened crazy fast Within seconds, , so And then I felt his hold on

I didn’t react, mostly because I didn’t think I needed to Like I said, it all happened so fast And it wasn’t like in the movies, where you could see the stea out of the key card--there was nothing to indicate anything had happened at all Except the blinking and the loosened grip, and then the nodding

And then, when I thoughtthere like that, I reached over and prodded hier

That was all it tookhe tu flat onto his back