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"I think your best bet is to focus on the girl who made eye contact A child’s mind is more pliable than an adult’s Their brains can heal in ways ours can’t Maybe you can get through to her"

"Okay, focus on the kid So what do I do? She’s like a little bug, scurrying around,sounds They all are, really"

"What?"

A wave of fear hitto the ceiling One has discovered my shower Do you kno difficult it is to shoith a departed woonna happen I tried to tell her that" I stopped when I noticed Ge her out, but someone had to do it, damn it "This doesn’t bother you, does it?"

"You are evil"

"Me?"

"Wait Are you kidding about all of this?"

"About the wo like that?" When she pressed her lips together, I said, "Oh, right, I would, but I’m not I need to find out what happened to them so they can move on You know, far away, out of my apartment"

"It sounds kind of awful, Charley"

"It is For the?"

"I heard he has an STD"

"I mean, on the women"

"Oh, I have no idea if they have any STDs"

"You’re still evil I’ll never get to sleep tonight"

"Dude, you take industrial-strength sleeping aids"

"And whose fault is that?" she asked, colued would be an accurate term for her condition It was fun to watch

I stood, too, and pretended to get huffy "You’re always bla me for your inability to sleep just because I introduced you to a few departed people ere kids If I’d known that describing their head wounds as they stood over your bed at night would be so traumatic, I wouldn’t have done it" When she cast me a look of doubt, I recanted my testimony "Okay, I would have Either way, I think you’ll be fine" I sat back down and crossedthere were really departed people out there stunted your e"

Ge up, everyone thought I was the evil sister I never fell for that storynot to incite rebellion and to never again bring plastique to school – it wasn’t even real – while she was busy being her perfect little self