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"Rise and faceposition Her eyes were clalare of the lights, like so to save your lives, Peter"

"You have an interesting way of showing it"

"You need to hear what I have to say"

"So talk"

A an: "There’s a man--more than a man, a kind of viral, but he looks like us His na called Grand Central He’s the one who sent me"

"So that’s where you’ve been all this tis I never told you, Peter Things I couldn’t tell you The viral part of ot worse and worse--I knew I couldn’t control it for long Right after Iowa, I began to hear Fanning in my head That’s why I went to New York I intended to kill him Or he could kill me I didn’t really care which I just wanted it all to be over"

"So why didn’t you?"

"Believe me, I wanted to I wanted to slice his damn head off But I couldn’t The viral that bit ’s It’s his virus I carry I belong to hilanced at Apgar to see if the fulland I had a deal If I stayed with hied his mind"

She shook her head emphatically "I didn’t have any part in that By the ti, it was too late to stop it All along he aiting for you to spread out, your defenses to drop It’s A her to him, he’ll call it off"

So there it was "What does he ith her?"

"I don’t know"

"Don’t you lie to me"

"Where is she, Peter?"

"I have no idea Nobody’s seen Amy in over twenty years"

Alicia’s tone had shifted; all her bluster was gone "Listen tothis You’ve seen what he can do He’s not like the others The others were nothing"

"We have walls We have lights We’ve fought theet it He doesn’t have to do anything You have, what, just a few thousand soldiers? And how as? Give him what he wants It’s your only chance"