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"Why? What’s happening now?" Suddenly tic-tac-toe with my buddy didn’t sound half-bad

Buzz Cut just thrust her chin at the other girl once loom, toward the cafeteria

I told ris, and the acids in h I could see fine in the dark, it would be easy to get turned around in a caether, each looking like the next I stayed close to Buzz Cut as she slipped in and out aht air was crisp with the shtly in the sand beneath ht was perforated by thousands of white lights that were sohter out here in the middle of the desert, probably because it was so dark

When Buzz Cut finally stopped, soe of the tents, I exaine they were far-off fireflies, swar

The last ti Tyler’s hand and assuring hi with all --to undo what I’d done to hi hi in love with him in the first place If I hadn’t done that, then he never would have been hurt at all

And then, I wouldn’t be here right now

"I thought onna have to send a search party after you" Siht air around me

When I spun around, he was there, watching me intently with those copper eyes of his His arainst the canvas wall behind hi easier now that I kneas alive "You’re okay" I still had about a million and one questions for him, but I started with "What about Willow and Jett and Thom? Have you seen them? Are they okay too?"

"I haven’t seen them, but they’re fine," he assuredelse He looked to Buzz Cut, who nodded, al what he’d just told aze shifted, alternating between him and Buzz Cut "II don’t understand" I faltered

Simon’s eyes crinkled as he pushed away fro me as if he could see as clearly in the dark as I could

"I told youwe have allies here"

No Uh-uh No freakin’ way

I’d seen the way Buzz Cut had sun I mean, she’d shattered his nose And, honestly, if looks could killSi here grinning like he’d pulled one over onto believe it, because she was just standing there, wearing that saht," I staed "An act," he said