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"Right Well, she’s gone I figure she’d headed to school"

I moved a little so I could look into her eyes Deep into them And I accessed that part of me that allowed me to read the erous as a nexus--the unspoken truths of a deainst theazes That hat I’d use to find out who she hat she wanted and what had really happened with Jordan

However, there was one problem

I couldn’t read her mind

And there was no wall there to stop

She wasn’t a demon She was human

Ato the doorway "Listen, it was a great breakfast , Eva" He grasped her hand and shook it firmly

She didn’t devour his e him a suicidal wreck Of course not This wo She ured that out herself and headed back to school

I let out a huge, shaky sigh as relief washed over o," I said

"What about the show?" Eva asked

"I’ement as fast as I could My heart pounded hard, butbad had happened to Jordan on her search for the truth

While she wouldn’t have gotten the answer she needed,Who kneas so concerned with her well-being?

With a lighter heart and renewed optis to co at the corner up ahead

"Saht and I pivoted to see Stephen standing there, as if waiting for aveemotions--happiness that he was still alive, and warinessthat he was still alive He’d been so sure last night had been it for hi into stasis, that he’d convinced ht I’d never see you again"

"Yet, here I ath black wool coat that matched the color of his hair His cinnamon-colored eyes scanned the street before they fell onyou need And it’s tiave it to you"

My soul He had ive it back to ht "Where is it?"

"This way" He nodded to a car around the corner, parked at the side of the curb