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"You figured she was just interested by you as a thug, a bully, and ato be provoked, whereas Sam was distinctly uncomfortable This little mission could take days It wouldn’t do to let Caine work on him He had to accept the fact that he was partnered with Caine And thatCaine had inflicted on kids ere now Sa down of half the town in a ade And about a thousand other felonies

"Felonies" A legal word There was a reason that as popping up in his head

Caine wasn’t the only killer in the FAYZ Of course, Sam had done only as necessary to save lives and defeat Caine and Drake But would courts see it that way?

To torture his he’d done that could be called cri Destruction of property Assault and battery Public drunkenness Driving without a license Burning a hole in a nuclear power plant Theft

Caine was looking back at him from the top of a rise "You have a lousy poker face, Saht there on your face You’re thinking about it, and it’s not the first tie," Sahter "Yeah, that’ll do it ‘I’m just a kid, Your Honor!’ Hah They’ll have to find a few scapegoats, and guess who it will be? You andout of here," Sam said

"Do I? Funny, because I expect we’ll all be dead Because I’ll tell you what: that girl, that Gaia? We both knoho she really is I don’t think old green-and-gross chose to take on a body for fun I think it expects to get out of here alive"

That ay too close to Saa Caine to hear

"Yep," Caine said "That’s right Endga down; at least that’s my bet But there’s also a ninety percent chance you and et out of here alive In which case we end up sharing a cell sohed "Kind of unfair, really, ithevil and all, and you just so darned virtuous and heroic"

"So why are we doing this?" Sam asked "Why are we on this mission?"

Caine stopped, turned around, and walked back to him Sam was struck by the undeniable fact that even now, even after being beaten and humiliated by Penny, his brother could project that hard-to-define thing called charis kind of evil

"Why are we doing this?" Caine asked hi this Because it’s a fight It ht And what else are we good at, you and et out there anyway? You going to sign up for soe essay started? Take driver’s ed?" Caine laughed, laughing at himself, it seemed "Yeah, I’m pretty sure Harvard ant ?"

Sa, but in the end he blurted it out "And Diana?"

"Great body," Caine said breezily "And a very open mind"

Sam didn’t buy it "It’s more than that, you and her"