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"Oh, she’s a revitalized," Rage says, eyeing h You’ve gotta earn that right Which you haven’t yet, Worotten"
Mark scowls and stares at his feet "It’s not my fault they don’t let me join in with the rest of you I would if I could You know that"
"You say that you would," Rage sneers "But there’s saying and there’s doing, and so far you’ve done zip For all we know, you’ve cried off and asked to be excused regular duties Maybe the burns are a sha that because you asked them to cover up for the fact that you’re a coward"
Mark stiffens, then squares hi, ain and I’ll thu you are"
Rage laughs "Back down, Wor with you"
He co while I’ examined When he’s finished, I stare at him calmly "Like what you see?"
"Not a lot," he sniffs "I don’t think Cathy has much to worry about"
"Why should I be worried?" the girl barks, looking up froame
"You’ve been queen bee round these parts," Rage says "You know that all the boys fancy you, since they’ve no one else to lust after Nobody would want to lose that sort of a following And I don’t think you will No offense, Becky"
"Get stuffed," I snarl
Rage cocks his head "Are you a tough girl?" he whispers "You are, aren’t you? A fighter, yeah?"
"Windby ers, then studiesYou are one of us"
"We accept you, gooble gobble," Tiberius chuckles from beside the pool table
"What the hell does that rowl
"Pay no attention to hi out eird crap like that"
"It’s from Freaks," Tiberius says "That old movie about circus freaks" He looks around for support "Some of you must have seen it"
"Was it black-and-white?" Cathy asks
"Yeah It was made in the 1930s"
"Then of course we haven’t seen it," she snorts "We don’t all waste our ti?" Tiberius roars "It’s an ahtmares the first time my dad showed it to me"
"They’d probably have found a role for you in it if you’d been alive back then," Cathy says frostily
Tiberius glares at her, then turns to me "Anyway, at one point a nor party to welco, We accept you, gooble-gobble Theyis that she’s one of them now, a freak, an outcast, a child of the damned"
Tiberius bends over the pool table to take a shot, then says again, but gluooble-gobble"