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It was the bottom of a bottle, the base of what ed A sliver punched up through her calloused sole into the meat of her heel

"Ahhhh!"

It hurt!

Tears ca in the sand She sat down hard and pulled her foot to her and saw the cut Lana would have to--

Bandages Band-Aids

"Ow!"

Penny started crying aloud She was hurt and no one would help her And ould happen to her when it was dark?

It was all so unfair So unfair So wrong

She’d been on top for not even a few ht where she wanted him, but no one liked her, and all they did was hate on her, and now her foot was hurt and bleeding

But not as bad as when her legs were broken Not as bad as that And she had survived that, hadn’t she? She had survived and she had co his hands in a block of cement If they tried to take it off, they would break his hands like her legs had been broken

Only Lana would help him, wouldn’t she?

She should have taken care of Lana when she had the chance The Healer ht be alun? Penny should have had Turk kill the Healer Yeah, that hat she should have done

The shadoeren’t lengthening; the light wasn’t really co from one place It was like she was down in a ith sun shining up high soht had to bounce down to reach her

Soon it would be dark

Then what?

Diana got heavily to her feet just as Justin went tearing past again, full of giddy high spirits and energy

Atria had wound down She was in the bo, reading

Justin tripped and fell headlong, a projectile aiiant belly

But he didn’t hit

The little boy fleard,out defensively; then he stopped, yanked back, and hit the deck hard

Diana wastoward him, worried, when she saw the tentacle wrapped around his ankle She froze Itup from the floor!

No A hatch

And in a flash the hatch was thrown back and Drake pushed himself aardly up

Diana shot wild looks in every direction, searching for a weapon Nothing

Drake was out of the engine space Standing on the deck Grinning at her

She knew she should screa with no rhyth wildly in her chest

Drake lifted the boy off the deck with effortless strength, carried hied him under the water