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I took a step back, trying to put so up by several beats

"What’s that?" I asked, keeping his attention trained onhe’d stay right where he was

Fro about son-of-a-bitch, but both of us were ignoring her now as Agent Truman or Dr Bennett or whatever the heck his name was concentrated ondistance between un in his hand

"The informe how different I was frootten my worth, even if it was only as a science experi away and lifted ed "I’m the one you’re after I’m the one you’ve been after all this time"

He flashed his teeth, and just like that he was the polar bear and I was a three-year-old girl "Makes no difference tothere for a minute before he pushed on, "We have another one, just like you Picked hily, his forehead bunching up "Funny thing is, after running some tests, you know the ones, kid healed just as fast as youmaybe faster Bet he can do all kindsa crazy shit, that one"

Hearing him talk about Alex Walker that way turned ent Tru behind hi away from this entire time

When Willoung the bat she’d been holding, I heard it whistle through the air And when it struck the side of Agent Truht actually losemyself he could healeven if, like he said, it was slower than the rest of us

I hoped he hadn’t lied about that other part, though, and that it hurt him like a mother

I kind of envied Willow’s power I’d always been more of a line drive hitter

She only struck hiusting sound as a fine spray of blood filled the air, and a look of sheer horror passed over Agent Truman’s face He blinked once, and only once, and then his eyes rolled all the way back in his head before he dropped forward, falling heavily on his knees and then landing face-first in the sand

"It wasthe bat

Griffin was already scra because the wounds on each of her shoulders were beginning to pucker around the edges It had to sting like you-knohat