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Quinn set the glass down and ran his hand through his hair, a gesture that flexed his considerable biceps and well-defined triceps, causing Alicia to edge a little forward on her seat and thereby definitely annoying Albert

"I’ll tell you, dude," Quinn said, "I think the way things stand right now, you’ll go down in history as a slimy little creep who ran off and left everyone to starve"

"History?" Albert ed "Everyone see down Just before I left,so through Into the FAYZ Yeah Into Anyway, the gaiaphage obviously thinks we’re getting out; otherhy ue with that

"So, yeah: history," Quinn said "We’re all being watched now And judged Up until a few days ago you were a big hero Now you’re dirt The only way you fix that is by co what you do"

TEN

61 HOURS, 36 MINUTES

THAT NIGHT SAM and Caine camped out within a mile of Gaia and Diana

Quinn slept in a bed with actual sheets while Albert walked the halls of the mansion on San Francisco de Sales Island and wondered if he had o back

Astrid lay in the cabin she usually shared with Sam and tried to think about life after, about how they could be, howbut ended up thinking of Drake, twenty feet below her in a water-filled box She tried then to turn her thoughts to ave up on sleep and read a book

Diana curled on the ground near a pile of stones Gaia had consented to heat and prayed not to dream but did dream, a dream of an overly lit hospital roo that incubator, only to see a bloody beast inside beating violently at the Plexiglas sides Nurses stared at her

Edilio crashed on a ratty istrate’s office He started to try and organize his plans for the next day but fell asleep so suddenly and so co he would find he had only reht of ht be, and whether Sinder--who had agreed to stop by toht for a while of Quinn, and wondered if he would care enough to try and force her to stop shts away and tried to iine what she could ever do, how she could ever survive out there

Dekka drea, and she se of time in the usual way He drifted and for a while seeain, focused, aware, and still repeating to hihway passed through the barrier, eighty-seven hungry, traus or blankets lay bathed in the eerie light of the out there and saw that the price of a Carl’s Jr Meer was just 349

ELEVEN

52 HOURS, 10 MINUTES