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"No fish, anyway," heEdilio as peeved a look as he could, he said, "When?" He’d been hoping to find an excuse to visit Lana It was painful seeing her with Sanjit, but less painful than not seeing her And, after all, he did have a boo-boo

Then he saw the Sorry look on Edilio’s face

"Great," Quinn said

SEVEN

71 HOURS, 12 MINUTES

IT WAS EXHAUSTING work for Brianna She would run two or three pieces of the Drake/Brittney thing off to far corners of the FAYZ, and by the tirab more, she’d find the body already partly reasseain

Still, the total pile grew smaller So way for a chunk of thigh to ooze and squir If they could

At some point in all of the back-and-forth, the head, still on its rock, had reverted to Brittney but then had gone right back to Drake, as if Brittney eakening, no longer able to manifest for more than a few minutes

This made Brianna much happier Brittney had never been evil--a nut, maybe, a little weird, but then ouldn’t be, in Brittney’s rather unusual situation? She’d been buried alive, after all, only to reee inextricably linked with Drake in a sort of weird immortality

If that didn’t mess you up, you were unmessable

In any case it was Drake’s head that now cursed her in a gasping whisper

"I’m not quite sure what to do with you, Drake," Brianna said, squatting down to look hie will kill you," Drake hoarse-whispered Then he spit up a piece of gravel that h his severed windpipe

"I probably better take you to Sam; he can fry you up," she said "By the hy do you have a sack full of dead lizards and sos?"

Drake just hissed Then he called her a dyke and estions Extrery She raised her th and speed at her command Which was considerable The machete struck sparks off the stone after it had passed clean through the skull, face, and neck

Drake’s head split, top to bottom The left side--which had almost all of his nose but only a quarter of his mouth--rolled off the stone The other half--not so much nose and a lotsto the inside of Drake’s head was almost too much for her It retained all the same structures it had had when Drake was fully human But it did not bleed It was alive, but alive in a way very different froray Brains are soray, but in reality they’re pinkish--she’d seen brain spilled, so she knew Drake’s was genuinely gray with a tinge of green It looked like an unhealthy cauliflower that had been split down the middle

She could also see what she supposed were sinuses--open spaces above and behind the nose