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He heard a surge of sound fro He knew that screech

He started toward town, then stopped and waited as his fisherathered around hi Weit’s better if we stick together anyway"

As an inspirational rallying speech, it was pretty lame And yet, it worked He walked toward the sounds of fear and anger with all his people behind him

Lana kept her hoodie pulled close around her face She did not want to be recognized by anyone in the crowd She had coe an ared horror novel

In eerie shadows the crowd of some two hundred kids, ars, chains, knives, and axes, dressed ina prancing, fist-shaking, wild-eyed, barefoot lunatic and a handsome boy with a crown stapled to his scalp and his hands trapped in a block of concrete

Now they were taking up a chant "Let hi for Caine They were scared to death and now, finally, they really wanted a king They really wanted anyone ould save theo!"

And a second chant: "We want the king! We want the king!"

Sudden screams fro back, clawing at their faces, crying out

Penny had attacked!

"Kill the witch!" a voice bellowed

A club went flying through the air It missed Penny A chunk of concrete, a knife, all missed

Penny raised her hands over her head and screa hit her arm and drew blood

The kids who’d been struck by her visions panicked and ran fro forward It was a s and weapons, shouts, orders; and suddenly fro forith ar between the steps and the crowd

Lana recognized the boy at the center of that wedge She laughed in rueful surprise

"Quinn," she said to herself "Well"

Penny was staring transfixed at the wound on her arm, but she tore herself away to advance on Quinn "You!"

Quinn cried out in agony There was no way to knohat Penny was doing to hih There were injured kids There were about to beto happen

Lana drew her pistol "Get out ofher path Shethe crowd from the opposite direction that Quinn had taken

A panicky riot had broken out at the base of the steps as Penny wreaked all the da one another, seeing monsters where none existed