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The infected man who’d stolen the Transvice was just outside the door to the cargo room, the weapon clutched in his hands And he had it ai of his icy heart "Please don’t" He held out a hand toward theyou She’s only--"
"I knoho she is!" the stranger shouted, a line of spit hitting his chin His ar down fro a pale, scratched face that shone with sweat He leaned up against the frairl? That’s probably what you think she is?"
"What are you talking about?" Mark wondered hoas supposed to talk to someone this far past reason
The man was obviously beyond any hope His eyes said it all "Brought the demons, she did" He stabbed the Transvice in the air to ee with her They ca and rain of poison Left us to die or worse, and look at her now! Even though she was hit All fine and cute! Laughing at us all for what she’s done"
"She had nothing to do with that," Mark said He could feel Deedee quaking under his hand "Not a thing How could she? She’s five years old at the er that he couldn’t hide
"Nothing to do with it? That’s why she got shot and showed no sign of it? She’s some kind of savior to those demons, and I mean to send her back to the steps, almost lost his balance, but so in his hands but still pointing at Deedee
Mark’s anger dissolved and was replaced by a huge lu his eyes, he felt so helpless "Please … I don’t knohat to say to you But I swear she’s innocent We went to the bunker where the Bergs came from We found out who’s behind the disease They aren’t demons They were just people We think she’s iet sick"
"You shut up," theforward another couple of steps He lifted the Transvice and aiot the look about ya Pathetic Stupid Weak in the knees Demons wouldn’t even bother with so his lips farther back than see shifted deep down inside Mark He knehat it was, even if he didn’t dare adood A rush of anger and adrenaline flooded hih his throat, released in a screath to create it He rushed forward, leaping into action before theMark saw the er, but sohtened all of his senses one last time, Mark somehow outpaced hi the weapon away as it shot a bolt of white heat He heard the shot thuainst the wall behind the hihting hirabbed the man’s shirt and yanked hirasp and threw it to the ground That was too easy a death for this psycho
Mark started dragging him down the hallway, aware on some level that he himself had crossed into territory from which he wasn’t sure he’d come back
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The man screamed and clawed at Mark’s face, kicked blindly and tried to stand and run But Mark didn’t let any of it affect him A universe of fury see that he knew couldn’t last, couldn’t be contained His sanity hung by a thread
He dragged the h the cockpit door Toward the brokenAlec didn’t even see there with his hands clenched in his lap, staring blankly at the controls
Mark didn’t say anything, thought soht explode out of him if he dared open his rabbed thehi hiainst the wall and the round Mark picked hiain Sa loudly
Mark picked the ain threw hih--head, then shoulders, then waist--before he got stuck Mark didn’t let go, kept pushing and shoving, throwing all his strength into ending this man’s life
The ship lurched just as Mark shoved the h the open space, his muscles tensed as he pushed The entire world tilted, his head spinning with a rush of blood through his syste through thealong with the stranger Where blue sky and wispy clouds had filled Mark’s vision before, now he saw the ground straight in front of him He was about to plus on the lip of theframe before he could fall all the way out The rest of his body hung froo of hi his shirt to keep hi to the earth below Mark tried to push the guy away, but he was desperate and wild, clis norapped around Mark’s head Wind tore at both of theain? Mark asked hi’s ice!
A jolt ran through the ship and suddenly it righted itself again Mark and theand slaled Mark’s legs screa two people He flailed with his ar to hold on to The outside of the Berg was littered with various boxy protrusions and handles fortherip
Mark’s fingers finally found a long bar, and he gripped it tightly Just in tith left His feet slipped from theand the two bodies flipped over and slah his entire body but held on, slipping his forearap between the handle and the ship so that his elbow took the weight His sto, the crazedfor soht in his ear