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Brittney had no warning of the wire that went around her throat No time even to flinch as the wire cut into her neck, severed the e only when it had closed around her upper spine

"Wish it was Drake, not you, Britt," Brianna said

Then Brianna put her foot on Brittney’s back and heaved as hard as she could The wire sliced through cartilage and nerve tissue, ristle, and suddenly Brittney’s head rolled free and landed in the dirt with a thump

Brittney could not le where she could see Brianna Brianna eating from exertion She wiped her broith the back of her hand The garrote--a two-foot-long piece of piano wire strung between steel grips that had once been part of so from her free hand

Brianna looked down at her, quite satisfied, and said, "Now I’ to chop you into little bits and spread the pieces all over the place See if you or Drake can reassemble yourself then"

Brittney was not dead Aside fro attached to her body she didn’t feel any difference, just a dull pain in her neck When she strained her eyes upward, she could see her body The body was atte to stand up all by itself

But when Brittney tried to speak, she found she could only whisper, and the sound of her whisper was partly drowned out by the gasping noise of air sucked into her severed esophagus

"You can’t kill us," Brittney whispered

"Maybe not But I’ to try"

Brianna carried a sawed-off shotgun in her specially adapted runner’s backpack, and aover her back She pulled out theit so fast Brittney couldn’t see the blade , which caused it to topple over

Whump!

There was a whir of , a rapid-fire whap! whap! whap! whap! and what had been Brittney’s body was in pieces--ars off and then chopped into three pieces Torso hacked into random chunks There was no blood It was as if Brianna were chopping up an eht bothered Brittney How could she be alive with no blood? What was she?

"Want to watch?" Brianna asked