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And then it was Jett--Jett who’d only been twelve when he’d been taken but was now sixty-four years old Jett who looked at , kaleidoscope eyes when he said the words that gave me back some of myself "Maybe there is a way"

I shot to ?"

Simon looked as confused as I felt, and behind me, Willoas silent

Jett blinked rapidly and pushed his hair out of his eyes "What if" He rubbed his hands on his pants "What if he could be one of the Returned?"

It was as if Jett had poured gasoline on an open fla his hands as he spoke "No one’s ever done that Not on purpose Even if anted to, there’s no way of even knohere or when one of these ‘takings’ ht occur"

"Besides," Willow added, a million times more subdued than Siuarantee he’d even come back Most don’t"

I didn’t know that I knew soh What Jett was suggesting, it was crazy Beyond crazy

It was as good asa norless than hu Tyler to a life where he would no longer be nor time bomb because his blood was toxic to everyone around hie like other people, so he’d be forced to give up all his friends and family in order to keep his secret

He’d be a freak, like ure it out? What if we can pinpoint a location and take hied by Si into action He went to one of the walls where he’d already hung the mostly deci at ot from you" He went to the nearest workstation and pulled up an exact replica of the ed lines clearer and ed I couldn’t get anything off it"

Iet to the point?"

"The CD was another matter," Jett continued, oblivious to Willow’s short te "It held a lot of your dad’s backup files for the past five years, and your dad is one righteous record keeper Most of what he had on that disc we already knew: na"

"So?" Simon interrupted "What’s your point?"

"The point is, there’s one place that co site One place that’s shown up again and again and again and again in the past five years that we’ve never been able to pinpoint"

Jett jumped up from his chair and tapped a spot on the map with the tip of a pen "And it’s not that far froton State "Where is it?" I asked, because even if I wasn’t willing to entertain the idea of letting Tyler become like me--like us--I needed to hear Jett out

"It’s called Devil’s Hole" Jett breathed the nae

"Devil’s? Hole?" The skepticisain Jett didn’t seeed by her cynicison border," he explained as he traced a path from where we presuround--all the way to the place where Jett believed Tyler had a chance of being taken

"There’s been a lot of talk about it being just an Indian legend In fact, there was this Native American shaman named Red Elk who once told reporters that his father had first taken him to see the hole back in 1961 He claie things happened whenever he went near it He never really said what those strange things were, but there were others ore that aniiant crater Soateway to hell" He flashed a crooked ss was ever confireneral public But here’s the interesting thing" He raised his eyebrows "No one’s ever really known the true location of Devil’s Hole But there are those who believe the government knows exactly where it is and that it’s always been a source of alien activity, and they’ve been trying to conceal the location for years According to your dad"--he was looking at ht, because he seems to know exactly where it is too"

He took off the pen’s cap and circled a pinprick of a spot on theit clear that this was the location in question I studied the distance between here and there He was right; it wasn’t far A couple of hours at most

"And what? You think we can just show up there, and they’ll take Tyler and heal him?" I couldn’t help it The idea was preposterous

"Not just heal Restore," Simon corrected