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Quinn’s fist was drawn back before he knew it Penny’s nose exploded Her head snapped back hard and she fell on her behind

Quinn grabbed Cigar’s bloody forearoing to Lana"

Penny snarled and all at once Quinn’s flesh caught fire He bellowed in terror The fla and ate at his flesh

Quinn kneasn’t real He knew it But he couldn’t believe it He could not refuse to feel the agony of the illusion He could not help but s flesh and--

He aiht Penny in the side of her head

The fire went out instantly

Penny rolled over, got to her feet, trying to get control of her scattered mind, but Quinn was behind her now and had his powerful arm around her neck

"I will snap your neck, Penny I swear to God, I will snap your neck Nothing you can do will stop me"

Penny went liet aith this, Quinn?" she hissed

"Anyone o on strike See hoell you enjoy life without me and ar’s arher than others Blake and Bonnie had the worst job you could have:the septic tank Also known as the Pit

Dekka had used her powers to help dig the pit, although it had still taken twenty other kids to clear the levitated dirt away The result was a hole in the ground ten feet deep, twelve feet long, and three feet across Give or take: no one had exactly used a tapeslit trench The trench had been covered with an entire side of one of the Nutella train’s steel boxcars Sam had cut it free and Dekka and Orc had hauled it the miles from the train crash site

Sam had then burned five two-foot holes in the steel

And that here Blake and Bonnie came in Alone neither of the, but soenius, recognized by Edilio, their direct supervisor Together (with so five outhouses perched above those holes This they had done by taking shipping crates, re out a sort of doorway The end result was an open-topped wooden crate with a narrow door covered with a shower curtain to provide soe that the heads of tall people could be seen The advantage, however, was that the smell of the septic tank wasn’t trapped in a closed space