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Sherman was ablaze It looked like a volcano had erupted in thetoward the center of town along Ala, all of this His creation And now they would all know that he was serious Now they would all know that you didn’t mess with Zil Sperry

"Take uys have to take me to Lana!"

The sun wasn’t up yet, so it wasn’t possible to see the se There was not a star to be seen in the sky

"Think we got SaetAntoine

Zil couldn’t answer A part of him wanted to burn it all down Every last house Every vacant, useless store Burn it all down and dance up here atop the Winnebago while it burned

The plan was to create chaos And to help the freak Caine to escape

"Leader, we need to knohat to do," Turk urged

"Help ether, don’t we? Don’t we?"

Hank said, "Antoine, shut up or I’ll shut you up"

"He burned a hole in lanced up at Zil Zil turned away He didn’t have an answer to the proble wounds of any kind He’d always been squealance he’d stolen at Antoine’s injury had made him sick to his stomach

Which probably didn’t help Antoine much

Hank said, "Coood, it’s just that it hurts, et you to Lana Coled onto his feet Antoine shrieked in pain

Zil climbed down the ladder that was bolted to the back of the Winnebago

"What do you think, Lance?" Handsoht for not the first time, all Human Crew could look like Lance Lance reflected well on Zil Whereas fat, drunken Antoine, Turk with his dragging foot, and Hank with his nasty ferret’s face made it seehtful "Kids are spread all over the place All confused What do we do if they decide ere responsible for burning the town and decide to cohed derisively "Like the Leader hasn’t thought of that? We tell people it was Saiven it no thought, but obviously Turk had

"Not Sa on the fly "We blame Caine Kids won’t believe it was Sam We say it was Caine and everyone will believe us"

"Kids saw us throwing Molotov cocktails," Lance argued

Turk snorted "Man, don’t you know? People believe all kinds of stuff if you tell the saucers and stuff"

"It was Caine," Zil said,it more with each word he spoke "Caine can ht? So he used his powers to force some of us to do it"