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No one stopped Thoer when he unfastened the straps, or when Willow julass tiles beneath us

"You’retoward us, his face devoid of fear

"Seriously Stop where you are," I said, part of h with it when the ti alot the chance to find out

Thom tried to warn us, Willow too, with their shouts of "Behind you!" and "Run!" But it was too late for warnings because suddenly Sinized the soldier who took hiet those eyes--ice blue The saas He grinned down in Simon’s face "Got you now, you little piss"

Natty was slaun toppled to the floor, skittering noisily across the tiles and colass cylinders In the sudden chaos, Thoround, and buried beneath a pile of bodies

Willoho’d just gotten to her feet, had this strange faraway look in her eyes, like she was dazed, and I was sure I knehy: they’d drugged her Just one et her out of here

I was the only one of our group still standing and able to fight

Noas just ent Truman

The back of my head ached It burned and buzzed, and I tried to place the sensation

I looked back at Agent Trulass tubes and the gurneys and the soldiers who could ruin everything

Dread rippled through ent Truman started towardexplosion of pyrotechnics, but a sudden-unexpected-out-of-nowhere burst that sent glass torpedoing in all directions

I ducked lass sprayed across the tile floor When I glanced up again, I saw that it had been one of the human-sized canisters It had spontaneously exploded

No, not spontaneously, I realized, when I caught Agent Truman’s incredulous eyes shoot my way

Me I’d done that

My ability

"My suit!" one of the soldiers shouted "It’s been colass

Agent Trulass, alinedmound This was it, my clutch play

Fast, like the wind-up release of a pitch, I reached behind un hidden in the waist of my jeans, just beneath my T-shirt Even before my shoulder had whipped back around, my thumb found that sweet spot, the safety, and released it