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But then the breathing had begun to wear on hi him distracted If it didn’t stop

But then it did stop when he ood part, before the sound of breathing got to be too much, and not have to hear it any and then another The other touched hireen tendril spiraled up to touch her She seelass at once

He felt her touch and itworse and worse

Hot Like fire was inside him

He didn’t want to hear any more from his body

The other left She took her hand away and left But he could feel an echo of her inside him She had touched the Darkness, but she refused its pleas to co his attention again Hot and cold, hungry and thirsty

It bothered him

Chapter Eight

54 HOURS, 21 MINUTES

"KILL IT! KILL me!"

It was muffled, but you could still hear it They’d closed the air-conditioning vents--wasn’t like there was air-conditioning anymore--but still the desperate wail came up from the base So deals

Charles Merried in theleft in one of these bottles He didn’t want to have to go into the back rooet another bottle

"It’s the only way Sam! Sah to ignore the sound of that stupid girl’s voice That took a pretty good drunk and right noas only drunk enough that he didn’t want to get up off the couch

His stony fingers lifted a bottle Wild Turkey Only about half an inch of brown liquid left in the bottolass neck of the bottle shattered in his grip That happened fairly often Orc had a hard tith when he was a little drunk

He blew slivers of glass away He raised the bottle high, careful to keep the sharp points away from his still-human mouth

The one part of him that could be cut: his mouth

Well, his mouth and his eyes

He drained the fiery liquid into his h

Orc levered himself up He was heavy, like you’d expect of a boycreature of wet ceh Howard had tried once to weigh him

He had crushed the scales