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"I just want to say thank you, for taking care of rateful to you kids I owe you … I owe you everything," and she stops because she’s so choked up

I don’t knoe did it, actually I don’t knoethe outdoor period for Tent J We do laps and we recount what happened to us in each other’s absence There’s no older/younger between us anymore--we’re equals now

We talk about the future

We can’t believe we even have one

Looking around our little circle, I wish that Niko ith us and I worry about hiret the way that he died And poor lost Josie--her last hours ine

I look at Mrs McKinley and her grinning twins

I look at Sahalia, who is still, somehow, cooler than the rest of us, and Chloe, who is still, somehow, a brat

And at the brothers, Ulysses and Max, standing with the rest of the Douez family I wish Batiste could be here to stand with theary, we think I bet Batiste thinks about us all the ti to be okay in the end, I think

And at ain

And the beautiful Astrid, who I would kill for, and already have

The gratitude I feel swells up and tears come into my eyes But that’s okay, because as Henry and Caroline blow out their candles, everyone else is crying, too

A figure is approaching over the hills and grass It’s Niko and he’s running

"Guys, guys!" he shouts, breathless "Look!"

He holds up the front section of a printed newspaper Printed papers have made a comeback with the interruption of the Network We all pull in close to see

A headline reads: CLOUDS OF WARFARE COMPOUNDS RUMORED ADRIFT

Reading that gives me a pit of cold dread in my stomach

But that’s not what Niko’s so excited about

He points to another, sees rise in rebellion at the University of Missouri container on a full-color picture

It’s an old guy being protected frohtstick

"It’s Mr Scietto!" Alex yells

And next to hiirl with her hair up in two giraffe buirl in the picture is Josie!

"I’ between ?"