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He fired even as he rolled, and the result was a weird laser show of twisting green bea

"We’re too far from town," Gaia taunted "Surely you want your last battle to be witnessed and ad to burn down to nothing Coo to exterminate Don’t you want to see?"

Saed around his beas fro display of power The log weighed tons

No tiet out of the way He fired with both hands and burned through the fire-weakened log Twohis skin and crisping his hair

WHUMPF!

The log sections crashed behind hi him with sparks that stuck to his shirt and hair The smoke billowed around him

He choked and blasted randomly, blindly, all around him Her cry of pain was the sound of hope But he couldn’t see what dah the smoke, not with Caine’s telekinetic power but with Jack’s brute strength Her hand grabbed his arm; he didn’t resist, which would have cost hiht into her Her own pull overbalanced her and she fell back

With no other easy choice, he punched her in the face

She pushed hih the air He had ti on her back, and then he hit the truck’s cab, hard, bounced off, and lay winded on the ground

Gaia was on hi over him "Come on, Sam, you can do better than that" Her hand closed on his throat He could feel the ioing to co and watch"

She lifted hith of chain on the bumper of the truck It was red-hot He heard and s as she wrapped it around him, heard her cry out in pain but accept it just so she could hurt hiainst hi and seared his flesh

"No glorious death for you, Saround, and then he fell down a long, dark tunnel

When he regained consciousness, he first felt the burns fro his arainst his body He could ht, but he could not ai Wrapped in chains that stuck to his skin as they slowly cooled

When he twisted his head, he saw Gaia walking down thetruck floated