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She had thrown it Soar cried pitiably

And then, so hed in the dark

Astrid with shaking hands grabbed the shotgun and fired it once

She saw the edge of the field

She saw Cigar frozen in a twisting fall

He was in the field

She heard the greedy

"Petey! Petey! Help hiar said, "Oh," in a small, disappointed voice

And the only sound in the darkness was the relentless feeding of the wor, no choice but to hear Tears flowed She sat with her knees together, head in twisting hands, crying

How much time passed until the worm sounds were finished she couldn’t know The stink … that remained

She was alone now Completely and absolutely alone in a darkness that see, as if she had been shole and was now in the belly of soht, Petey," Astrid said at last "No choice, huh, brother? The crazy behind door number one or the crazy behind door number two Shohat you have to show ht, but soestion of a shape A little boy

"Are you there?" she asked

Soh her scalp and through her skull and pushed it deep inside her brain No pain Just a terrible cold

"Petey?" she whispered

Peter Ellison did not move He stayed very, very still His hand touched her on the head, but only just, just barely, and he stayed very still

The avatar that was his sister had within it an ans inside of mazes inside of maps that were part of planets and…

He pulled hiame of such beautiful coirl with the yellow hair and the stabbing blue eyes It took his breath away Or would have if he had breath and body

He mustn’t play with those complex swirls and patterns Each time he had tried he’d broken the avatar and it had come apart He couldn’t break this one

It’s me, Petey, he said

The avatar shuddered Patterns twisted around his touch, feeling for hiht-snakes

"Can you fix it, Petey? The FAYZ Can you ht up through the avatar, words of light floating to hireat and terrible thing he had done?