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She noticed his disapproving look "Like any of us are going to live long enough to get cancer," she said

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Lana looked at hietting enough to eat?"

"Well, you really can’t get enough boiled hed Then she sobered "I had soht it to me He wondered if I could cure him"

"Did you?"

"I tried I don’t think I helped uess it’s more complicated than a broken ar okay?" Sa Patrick’s neck "Honestly? And you don’t talk to Astrid about it so she co to help?"

"Between you and htmares Memories It’s hard to tell which is which, really"

"Maybe you should try going out ht? Nightmares and all?"

He didn’t answer, just dropped his head and looked down at the floor

"Yeah," she said

Lana stood up abruptly and went to the balcony door She stood there, arotten in her hand "I can’t seeetto me, but the rier I get"

"Been there," he said "Still auess"

"See, you’re different, Sahed, a short, bitter sound "Yeah, actually you do I’rab anything I can put ot up and went to her He stood just behind her "You can punch me, if it helps"

"Quinn used to coh she hadn’t heard hilass and I…I alun and I had it pointed right at his face, Saer"

"You didn’t, though"

"I shot Edilio," Lana said, still looking doard the water

"That wasn’t you," he said

Lana said nothing, and Saht h for hi a lot," Sa la, every day"

She slid open the balcony door and flicked the cigarette butt over the rail "Why did you cooing on with Orsay"

"Yeah" She pointed toward the beach below "I’ve seen her down there It’s been a couple ti But they look at her like she’s their salvation"

"She’s saying she can see through the FAYZ wall She says she can sense the dreaed