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Thus does the hour of reckoning approach Unto God I issue led love before our eyes, like a brightly colored toy above a baby’s crib Fro it shall return

I know she’s here, you said I can hear it in your voice

And I in yours, my Alicia I in yours

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Two soldiers, rifles dangling, stood at the end of the ay As Peter approached, they stiffened, popping quick salutes

"All quiet here?" Peter asked

"Dr Wilson went in a while ago"

"Anyone else?" He wondered if Gunnar had visited, or maybe Greer

"Not since we came on duty"

The door opened as heher small leather satchel of instruments Their eyes met in a way that Peter understood He embraced her and backed away

"I don’t knohat to say," Peter began Her hair was damp and pressed to her forehead, her eyes swollen and bloodshot "We all loved her"

"Thank you, Peter" Her words were flat, without emotion "Is it true about Alicia?"

He nodded

"What are you going to do with her?"

"I don’t know at this point She’s in the stockade"

Sara didn’t say anything; she didn’t have to Her face said it all We trusted her; now look

"How’s Ah "You can see for yourself I’m a little out of my depth here, but as far as I can tell, she’s fine Fine as in human A little one If you brought her in here and didn’t tell me who she was, I’d say she was a perfectly healthy woman in her mid-twenties who’d just come off a bad bout of the flu Somebody please explain this to me"

As coensfjord, Greer’s vision, A to do?" Sara said

"I’un to sink in "I guess y Funny to think about that at a ti in my office at oh-seven-thirty I need you there"