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"I’ll get Lana!" Sanjit raced back inside, down the hallway to the roo, "Lana! Lana!"

He found hi at the bad end of her pistol "Sanjit, how ed

He said nothing, just took her hand and drew her along with hi," Virtue said as they ran up "And I found a pulse in her neck"

Sanjit looked at Lana as though she olden skin suddenlywith the same horror he felt

Then he saw the flash of suspicion, the hard, angry look she got when she felt the distant touch of the gaiaphage Followed, as it usually was, by her jaw tightening, rih the dirty s of the car "I found her legs"

"Get them," Lana said "Virtue? You and I can carry her inside"

"We’re still going out? After what they did to Cigar?" Phil was outraged He wasn’t the only one

Quinn said nothing He didn’t trust hi There was a volcano inside hiar, with those creepy, frighteningfrom snakelike tendrils of nerve inside black crater eye sockets…

He had clawed his own eyes out

He’s one of ht, and the phrase went over and over in his head One ofHe deserved punishment But not to be tortured Not to be driven insane Not to be made into a monstrous creature that no one would be able to look at without stifling a scream

Quinn climbed into his boat His three crew members hesitated, looked at one another, and climbed in after him The other three boats all did likewise

They cast off and shipped oars and began to make their way out to sea

Two hundred yards out, a distance where people onshore could still easily see theave a quiet order

"Oars in," he said

"But there’s no fish this close in," Phil objected

Quinn said nothing The oars came in The boats rocked almost imperceptibly on the faint swell

Quinn watched the dock and the beach It wouldn’t be long before so fleet was not fishing

He wondered ould react first

Would it be Albert or Caine?