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Jack rolled his eyes and sighed his condescending geek sigh "Seriously? Brianna runs in miles per hour Explosions happen in feet per second Don’t believe what you see in movies"

"Yeah, Sam," Dekka said

"In the old days I always had Astrid around to huood to have Jack to take over that job"

He’d said it lightheartedly, but the mention of Astrid left an aard hole in the conversation

Brianna said, "I can’t outrun an explosion, but I’ll tie the string around the wire"

She zipped over to the wire and zipped back holding the loose end "Who gets to yank the string?"

"She who ties the string pulls it," Sam said "But first--"

BOOOOM!

The containers, the sand, pieces of driftwood, bushes on the bluff all erupted in a fireball Sa His eyes scrunched on sand

Debris see time to fall back down to earth

In the eventual silence Sa to say first we should all lie flat so we didn’t get blown up But I guess that was good, too, Breeze"

He looked toward the south Fro he couldn’t exactly see Perdido Beach There were no lights except for his eternal Saht

Down there in town his brother, Caine, was … doing what exactly? That was the question Had this been Caine’s idea, this booby trap? Had he heard or seen the explosion and was he now rejoicing, believing Saht Saainst the lake? Could Albert stop hi as Sa as Sam was alive and could join forces with Albert, Caine would be careful

But he wondered how long it would be before Caine ainst Albert and Sam Would Caine really let Diana have his child and stay with Sa ht not be the one who had taken the missiles But there was really only one other possibility A ridiculous possibility

Ridiculous

No, Caine had theto an end It was dark, and no one was looking at hiuilty about the fact that he was s him

Maybe Maybe hands Maybe the paws of a monster ould sink terrible claws into him and rip the flesh from his arm

He screamed