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"This" He lifted his hands to indicate himself, then winced "Me Do you kno many times I’ve bled on this plane? I don’t bleed I don’t bruise" He turned on Caet knocked out by a boy with a stick"

Carinned from ear to ear in triumph as Brooklyn asked, "Then why?"

"I don’t know," he said, working his jaw as though angry with hi breath, I stood and asked softly, "What law?"

He stared into the darkness, whispered whatthe only word I could coe human will We cannot redeem the sins of the father"

Brooklyn frowned in confusion "What does that ed history You were supposed to die I was just supposed to tweak the ti a little"

Glitch exhaled loudly and asked the obvious "Okay, besides the fact that all this is freaking e history?" He bent his head in thought "I randparents froe But only hued history Amanda Parks would have"

We all looked at hiain, Glitch asked the obvious question "Who’s Arin softened Jared’s battered face "A five-year-old frouy your grandparents would have killed in the accident--would arrive hoh he was picturing her in his er on earth, I promise you" He looked at me, seemed to want e the circumstances of her father’s death Thus, by association, those of your grandparents They were directly involved in Amanda’s request That is how their fates would have been altered Aed history, Lorelei Notto catch a ers each ti root There were laws, even for supernatural beings

"But you did," I said with gentle resolve "You changed history"

"I did" A sudden sadness came over him "Lorelei, you don’t knohat I’ve done to you I’ed history for h ashaed history for me"

MESSENGER

I could not hide ed history, had broken one of his laws, for hi bad"

"You don’t understand," he said, the full outline of hisin disappointment, "you couldn’t possibly It’s wonderful, the place you would have gone You cannot iine hoonderful And I took that away fro" He peeked at ree, I had to ask, "Then why?"