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"Kind of too good to be true, isn’t it?" I said quietly

"Kind of" He nodded gravely

Bishop ht have next to nothing in common, but at his heart he was a realist just like me My resurrection was not exactly textbook Even I knew that Especially with that after-death dreael

I quickly shared that with Bishop "Do you think it was just a drea you, Samantha, I honestly don’t know"

As the numbness wore off, the realization that I’d literally returned from the dead--which I’d been for at least twentyto the wall clock--set in

I was back, with no hunger, no cold, and I’d allow one into stasis and she’d died twenty o on that couch

The rest of me had corateful as hell for both

Together, Bishop and I left the townhoet closer to the abandoned house--which, at the otten word that it was haunted and decided that would make it a cool new location for his Halloween party The iron gates were open enough to squeeze through So Everyone was in costume

Well, not everyone I’d been a bit preoccupied to think of so? Everyone was still alive

My chilling vision had shown a e It hadn’t happened yet Which meant we still had a chance to stop it

"Are you okay here?" Bishop asked "I know this place gave you proble my head "Whatever it wasit’s not an issue anyuarded and watchful as he studiedbad to happen For , or an alien to burst out of ht be Halloween, but I sincerely hoped thatits end credits

It was crowded here--to put it mildly The furniture was covered in plastic dustcovers, but that gave it an appropriately eerie feel Kids milled about Music blasted from the speakers There had to be more than a hundred kids from school here, elbow to elbow Costumes of all kinds--scary, sexy, funny Soreat party, actually In another life I would have probably enjoyedclose by, ready to destroy absolutely everything and everyone

Yeah, that knowledge put a bit of a daht our eye and waved at us froaze was alert, and there was none of the hu on his face It had disappeared after Zach’s death

He’d lost his best friend tonight

"Nothing," he said, shaking his head "Standard teen fare So supernatural And no sign of our friend, Stephen"

"The angel’s not here yet," Bishop said

Connor stared at hiuess you haven’t run into Cassandra yet"