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"Yeah," Dekka ad, Jack’s becoh? I’ve done the math, same as you have Orc and Jack and Brianna?"

"There are tho could do it," Saht be able to do it"

Dekka snarled "Caine?"

"Either him or Little Pete," Sahed "Little Pete He’s not exactly just Astrid’s autistic brother" He explained briefly while Toto added a chorus of "Saet Little Pete to do anything?" Dekka asked

"The last tier he ain"

Jack and Dekka exchanged a wary look, each wondering what the other had known or guessed about Little Pete

"Little Pete?" Jack asked "That little kid has that kind of power?"

"Yes," Sam said simply "Next to Pete, uns compared to a cannon We don’t even knohat the limits of his powers are," Sam said "What we do knoe can’t couess what he’s thinking"

"Little Pete," Dekka ot that a long tio But he can do that? He has that kind of power?" She pondered for a moment, nodded, and said, "I see why you kept it secret It’s like having a nuclear weapon in the hands of, well, a little autistic kid"

Saht on his hurt heel He put his hand on Jack’s shoulder "Tell Edilio to get Caine, if they can do it in tiet Little Pete"

"And do ith Little Pete?" Jack asked, obviously horrified at the entire idea and still getting his head around the fact that the little boy was thein their universe

Sa move He had told Brittney he wasn’t a cold-blooded killer He wasn’t And this wasn’t even his job anymore, was it?

And yetAnd yet he could see a possible solution

"You pick his you can find"

"Yeah?" Jack asked in a quavering voice

"Toss hi," Sam said

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