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Michael poured a second shot into Peter’s glass and pushed it toward him "Drink this"

"I don’t want another"

"Believefor Peter to say so out into the night, though Michael doubted he was seeing ood news"

"How can you be so da to have to trustabout five felonies just talking to you"

"It’s going to happen The virals are coin with"

"This is…insane"

"I wish it were"

Michael had never felt so sorry for anyone since the day he’d sat on the porch with Theo, a lifeti

"This other viral--" Peter began

"Fanning The Zero"

"Why do you call him that?"

"It’s how he knows himself Subject Zero, the first one infected The docuave us in Colorado described thirteen test subjects, the Twelve plus A was the host"

"So what’s he waiting for? Why didn’t he attack us years ago?"

"All I know is, I’ht us the time we needed"

"And Greer knows this because of some…vision"

Michael waited Sometimes, he knew, that hat you had to do The s; you had to let resistance run its course

"Twenty-one years since we opened the gate Now you waltz in here and tellmistake"

"I know this is hard, but you couldn’t know No one could Life had to go on"