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"If I do, I’ll have you to answer to, right?"

"There won’t be enough tier, you’re dead Permanently Remember that" Venom dripped from every word he spoke "So will you see Sarin faded at the edges "Whatever you say, boss" He glanced at h I wasn’t afraid of Kraven any at the chance to have hio home and I did understand that Bishop, as the leader, needed to deal with the introduction of Roth and Zach into their new group dynamic

"Go to school, be normal," I said to Bishop "That’s what you think I should do"

He nodded "I’ll be in touch soon"

"I’ on it"

With a last squeeze of Bishop’s hand, I reluctantly let go of him It took a moht and I knew there were voluain the ave Zach a weak sh the weight of his unfriendly glare onaway Kraven tagged along silently, a few feet behind ether

Forcingwas harder than it had been before Roth had very nearly killedwith violence Even when hts were all verbal rather than physical and they tried to have the worst of them away from me It didn’t alork, but while it wasn’t pleasant, I was accusto thrown around as weapons Not actual weapons that could make sohI didn’t do ith holding it all in Before too long it caht, it felt like it wanted to be tears I felt a sob building in ed

"You okay?" Kraven asked fro

"How lanced overfor a while before he spoke again "You can tell me, you know"

"What?"

"What you really are You can tell me the truth" He’d increased his pace so he walked next to e look on his face Confusion, curiosity, a bit of anger--but not all directed atout all of my secrets yet

I shookback, but I have no idea what’s going on Seriously"

"You have power over us and I don’t knohy It worries me"

That made two of us I wish I knehat made me so different So special It would help "I don’t knohat to tell you I was normal before, so normal that nobody ever looked at el back his hts to find us e’re lost, you can control the hunger of being a gray so much that you haven’t needed to feed yet, you can zap us at will…and the reading --I don’t understand it, but there’s a reason for it And I’ure it out"

"Is that soht "More like a pro trip it up"