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And then she sat down as suddenly as she’d stood up

Jack’s eyes fluttered open "Huh," he muttered He blinked a couple of tilasses "What?"

"Trouble," Taylor said

"I’ain and sat back down again

"She’s sick," Jack said "Like the flu or whatever What I had"

"What do you mean she’s sick?" Taylor deru better Now Brianna’s got it"

"Interesting," Taylor said with a leer

"What’s…," Brianna began, and then started coughing again

"What’s happening?" Jack asked, coht

"You don’t even want to know," Taylor said "Take care of Breeze Sam can probably handle whatever this is by hied

Taylor shook her head slowly, side to side "If I said Drake Merould you say?"

"I’d say he’s dead," Jack said

"Yeah," Taylor said, and bounced out of the room

Sam reached the station Edilio was already there Alone

Edilio didn’t waste any tio," he said "Me and Elizabeth No one here but Marty and he’d been wounded Shot in the hand I sent him to Clifftop with Elizabeth to have Lana fix hi on, can you tell?" Sa, yelling, ‘Death to freaks’"

Saht…"

"Yeah, I knohat you’re thinking, ," Edilio said "Drake shows up, you know it’s hiht? He makes sure you know it’s him"

"Where are your other soldiers?"

"Run off" Edilio sounded disgusted

"They’re just kids," Sa at them In the dark All of a sudden Almost anyone would run off"

"Yeah," Edilio said curtly But Sam kneas embarrassed The army was Edilio’s responsibility He picked the kids and trained them and motivated them as well as he could But twelve-, thirteen-, fourteen-year-old kids were not supposed to be dealing with this kind of craziness Not even now