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I reeled back from Seth in shock "My death?"

"It’s written all over you like a poelimmered in his eyes "It’s your destiny, beautiful star A necessary step of a longer journey"

The angel had ed to put ht air as if theyat all--just a randohtly

"You can’t"

"I’ll fight it"

"You can try You’ll fail"

I clenched ernails bit into my palms I focused on that pain, and the pain in my ankle, and tried to think, to rationalize this

Seth was crazy

He said crazy things

And yetI knew that stasis was co for me just like with Stephen Stasis, that dark and deadly wraith in the distance, growing closer by the day

"Go back to your little angel and his friends," Seth suggested, standing up from the curb "Enjoy the tirabbed his ar to channel that part of els and demons This hadn’t co just below the surface for , feel so at the bottom of a dark pool of waterI just couldn’t reach it

The others could block iven enough time I pictured it like a tall, solid wall of ice Ice cracked, and it could be broken

"You spend too s, beautiful star It will be your undoing You obsess about your fallen angel, yet he’s not the only one to fall, is he? The girl fell far to the ground and death claiht "Are you talking about Julie? Julie Travis? You knohat happened at the mall? Why did she do that? Was there a reason for it?"

"There’s a reason for everything" Seth glanced around our surroundings, the dark and empty street that made me think ere the only two in the city if it wasn’t for the buzz of activity a block ahead, back near the club "Soray It devours all that is good And the lost ones wander, their nu daily They search for escape, just as we all do But they’re trapped, just like we all are You already know this--you know ain For asense "What do I already know? Stop playing gaame, beautiful star One with a time limit And it’s time to accept your destiny"

"If my destiny is death, then I don’t accept it"