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No way she could have known that the game was real That it had become real when the last battery died And that Little Pete’s opponent in the gae

It had reached Little Pete It wasn’t the first tirasp, the two greatest powers of the FAYZ were linked

The gaiaphage had tricked Little Pete It had used Little Pete’s own vast power to give life to its avatar, Nerezza

Orsay, too, had once touched the e It was like an infection--once you had touched that restless evil mind, it had some kind of hold over you A hook buried in your e inside her She still wasn’t free of it But Lana had known it, been aware of it Maybe that had given her a defense Or e simply didn’t need her anymore

They reached the road to Clifftop

But the way foras blocked by what looked like a tornado A tornado named Dekka

Dekka raised the ind before her and walked steadily

BLAM!

A stab of fire barely visible through the flying, swirling debris

"Get her! Get the freak!" Zil bellowed

Dekka keptthe slosh of blood filling her shoes

So up behind her She yelled back over her shoulder without looking, "Stay back, you idiot!"

"Dekka!" Astrid’s voice

She ca behind her

"Not a good time for you to yell at et to the cliff"

"I’ht to defend ht"

"Listen toto stop you I’h Now!"

"What? What’s happening?"

"Murder," Astrid said "We have to get through You have to get through!"

So at thehtless zone and went flying up, head over heels, spinning slowly

He fired as he rose Gun banging in rando around behind her They moved cautiously, far outside her field She could see the from bush to hillock to cactus

A bullet whizzed so close by her ear she thought it ht have hit her