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"Yes"

"Did she?"

"Knohich was mine?"

"Know her own, Major Please cooperate"

"I suppose she did I don’t know"

"But neither of you ended up where you were supposed to be"

"Soers didn’t handle the evacuation well"

FOUR

LILAC

PAIN LANCES THROUGH MY SHOULDERS, and I taste blood as I bite the edge ofany th The crowd surges past, paying no attention Spots dance before ives out

I can’t have fallen more than a floor or two, or surely I wouldn’t have been able to catchmy shoulders out of their sockets Below eon’s ability to repair it

A ragged cry tears out of s finally expand and contract, but nobody hears The people around me are a blur of color and sound, the s with irl clinging for her life to the railing-- to nize faces, but it’s alltoo quickly

And then a voice snarls at the hands wrap aroundback onto the catwalk So with the flow, his body betweenfor safety My feet don’t even touch the ground

He jerks me into a side corridor free of traffic and setsinto nize him