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La hora de nuestra muerte The hour of our death

Edilio raised his automatic rifle and fired six shots at Gaia

Sa Drake had given him, but it was bad And each time he hauled himself another few inches down the road it made him cry out He couldn’t even be sure what had been broken But he knew that he could not feel one leg and the other tingled like a banged funny bone And he felt a twisting, grinding agony in his back and shoulder

He didn’t even kno long he had been like this There were periods of unconsciousness of unknown duration He seeht

At this rate he would get to Perdido Beachnever He had at least a et to Ralph’s, six inches at a ti before he reached help Gaia had turned Caine, or maybe just tortured him into submission It didn’t matter which, because if Caine helped her, or even if Caine just stayed out of the fight, the odds would grow impossible

"Unh!" he cried as he pulled hiet up on one foot and hop, maybe that would be faster, but if he fell, the pain would be awful

Maybe he shouldn’t think ill of Caine He had no idea what agony Gaia could cause his brother He was unwilling just to risk a fall onto a broken leg;worse

Astrid At least Gaia would not stretch out her death Gaia would kill everyone as quickly and efficiently as she could She would burn the ton to do it Force everyone froht like his own

"Unh!"

He was useless, here at the end, useless The great and powerful Sa like a mutilated insect down a road as the sun set out over the ocean The final sunset of the FAYZ

It was unfair They had all believed the end was in sight To be slaughtered like those poor kids at the lake, all of them just cut down, crushed All those lives

Astrid

He’d actually had fantasies of the two of the out of this place hand in hand He had run endless scenarios, wondering how they could stay together outside, out there

And she had been worrying about the aftermath, how they would all be seen by the world Well, maybe this was better Maybe it would just be better to--

No, to hell with that No, they deserved to live They all had paid and paid and paid their dues a thousand times over They deserved to live

Soe

The creature before hi

"Taylor?"

Her eyes blinked They had changed, soolden skin, but her hairand her mouth was different, somehow more human

"Taylor! Don’t bounce! Stay!"

Did she understand? Lana h she was no longer the old Taylor who had flirted and teased hiossipy Taylor