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Lana, too, felt the dark distant e reach out for her

She woke, eyes open quite suddenly Patrick was beside the bed, panting, worried, wagging his tail uncertainly He could tell, soo back to sleep," Lana said

Patrick whi around a couple of tier trick her into believing it had a voice Those days were gone But it could still touch her with a tendril of consciousness It could still remind her of its presence, and of her connection to it

This must be what it was like to be a victim of some awful crime, and to know that the person who did it to you was still alive, still looking for a way to do it again

The gaiaphage lusted after Lana’s power Using her power it could do s Like replace an aer quite so weak

"Anxious, are you?" she asked the cool night air "Down under the ground nibbling on your uranium snack?"

The Darkness did not answer But Lana felt her instinct was right: the creature was anxious

But not afraid

Lana frowned, thinking about the distinction Anxious but not afraid Anticipating? Waiting for soarette-- she was hooked, she accepted that now--and lying there with her eyes closed and failing to fall asleep Sleep, even if it cahtmares

So she sat up, fuhter The lighter sparked, the cigarette glowed, and the smell of smoke filled her nostrils

"What are you up to?" she asked "What do you want?"

But of course there was no answer And she could sense the Darkness turning its attention away

Lana got up and padded over to her balcony The h overhead It was either very late or very early

The barrier was so close, she felt as if she could almost touch it

Was it true that the world was just on the other side of that barrier? Was it really so close that she’d have been able to sawkers who came to see the dome?

Or was that just another lie in this sht now, just pop: no ?

Her mom and dad

She closed her eyes and bit her lip The pain of memory had snuck up on her, hit her when she wasn’t ready

Tears filled her eyes She wiped them away impatiently

Suddenly, just down on the cliff above the beach, an eruption of blazing green-white light Saht show She heard hi to burn his way out of the FAYZ

It went on for a while and then stopped Darkness returned Sam was invisible to her now

Lana turned away

So, she was not the only one fantasizing about cracking the shell and eht as she stubbed out the end of her cigarette, I’ve never thought of it as an egg before