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She felt a cool breeze in the room Her eyes went instantly to theIt was open wide Pushed all the way up

There was no question: it had been closed She’d been sitting beside it It had been locked And noas open

And for the first ti of the FAYZ, a cool breeze blew into the room and wafted over the damp forehead of the most powerful person in this little universe

Drake felt the Darkness touch his mind He shivered with pleasure

It was still out there, Drake was sure of it Still calling to hiainst the Darkness

Drake cracked his whip hand just to hear the sonic-boom snap of it And to let Orc hear it, too

"Hey, Orc! Come down here so I can whip that little patch of skin off you!" Drake deht of the tiny, diht--he knehere it had coerous light of his

Drake reht He’d been on his back, helpless And Sae, had burned off Drake’s legs and orking his wayBrittney had eed

Drake didn’t knohat happened next, he couldn’t see or hear when Brittney was in control All he kneas that Sam hadn’t vaporized hi to Orc’s heavy tread upstairs

Drake didn’t knohat had happened to make him this way, to cause him to share a body with Brittney Much of recent life was aon hiht toward hihtirl in the nighty, the stupid little o? He re form on a polished floor

Brittney had died Drake had died And then, neither of thehtmare world where dirt filled theirlike woring in a night it to buy half an inch of clearance

Dark, that dreaht

He re, "There’s no air"

Buried alive, there couldn’t be any air No light and no air, no water, no food, forever and forever

It had taken a long tih for him to realize the wonderful truth: he was deadbut alive

Unkillable Buried in the damp earth and yet soht buried in the earth but of walking the earth He would be in one place, and then quite suddenly, in another It took hiy was a part of him They were joined, connected Melded into one creature with two minds and two bodies

So