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Diana al into the hole of the nu on?" Pat de up

Blake was silent

"He had soan She made a face, then added, "I don’t knohat it was"

"It was a monster," Blake said

"Jeez, dude, you scared a my business" He stomped off down the hill toward the lake

Diana didn’t yell at Blake "Where’s the other one of you? What’s her nairl?"

Blake shook his head dully A veil went down over his eyes "I don’t know," he said "I guess she’s gone"

Orc sat reading

That fact, the sight of Orc sitting on a rock with a book in his hands, was still inexplicable to Howard

Orc and Howard had gone with Sa Split Sam was a pain in the butt, but he wasn’t likely to decide to throw you through a wall, like Caine ht

The only proble population had stayed in Perdido Beach Howard operated a whiskey still at Coates, but traveling from Coates to the lake was not exactly an easy trip And Howard couldn’t do it with more than about a dozen bottles in a backpack

Orc could carry farany the Bible

Orc drunk was depressed, dangerous, unpredictable, and occasionally murderous But Orc sober was just useless Useless

Orc had been given the job of guarding Sinder’s little far and reading

Sinder’s fare-shaped piece of land that had once been a streambed back when rain still fell in the mountains and sent strea a web of shallow canals that brought lake water in to water the neat rows

Sinder and Jezzie spent all day, every day, planting and tending Orc spent as much time In fact, he had set up a little tent just beside the rock and he slept there hts there as well, trying to keep alive his friendship with Orc, trying to get Orc past this whole newfound sobriety thing