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"Breeze," Dekka warned

So Brianna opened the bag Dekka looked inside "What is it?"

So Brianna upended the bag Dead lizards, broken eggs, and Drake’s head landed on the antiskid flooring

"Ahhhh!" Astrid screamed

"Ah, Jesus!" Dekka yelled

"I know," Brianna said proudly

"Oh,to strike envy into the heart of a horror movie special-effects expert The two halves of Drake’s head had started to rejoin But because the halves had been tossed wildly together, the process was very incomplete Very

In fact at the moment the halves were backward, so that the left half was looking one direction and the right half another Sections of neck and spine stuck both up and down The part that held most of Drake’s mouth was stuffed with hair from the back of his head

And, somehow, bits of dead lizard were squeezed in between But the dead lizards thus incorporated were no longer dead And there was egg white s to speak and notit

A lizard tail whipped one eye--hard to tell if it was left or right--a parody of Drake’s whip arm

The three of them stared: Astrid with blue eyes wide, hand over mouth; Dekka with mouth wide open and brow furrowed; Brianna like a proud school kid showing off her art project

"Ta-da!" Brianna said

Connie Te in a chair beside her trailer home on the bluffs south of the barrier They set up a monitor so she could see her interviewers--MSNBC, the BBC, and Nightline

She had noticed the sudden change inteo an intervieith the media would have been sympathetic She would have been one of the brave band of bereaved mothers

Now she was the mother of not one but two killers