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"I’ll live," she said darkly "Which is more than I can say for theroan as I stepped forith Ivy, ready to take the at them, I didn’t think they would I took a breath to let the echoed up through our feet A soft pattering of dust sifted down, and the two elves looked up The one who’d hit the support looked terrified Pointing up, he turned and ran the e’d come in
"Hey! Come back here!" I shouted as the other one bolted after him
Jenks darted up, his face scared "Out!" he shrilled, the sound of ru louder "Run!"
"What?" was all I had time for, and then the earth , anything, to keep fro Chunks of concrete dropped where the elves had been Ivy danced, so pole
"It’s falling!" Jenks screa air
Wobbling, Ivy grabbed , and we broke into a run
"Earthquake?" I guessed as we found Trent, dazed and numb in theoff and rip
"We’re on a thousand-year-old swamp," Ivy said "No fault lines here"
"Run!" Jenks shouted "It’s not over yet!"
I grabbed Trent’s suitcase, and we all ran for the brown-painted door, getting three steps before a wave of dusty dirt rolled over us, clogging our lungs and hts went out, and the earth shook again Choking, I feltIvy as she threw stuff out of our way
"There!" she shouted, and the diave a hiccup, and noise crashed down,me cower Hand on Trent’s arhed We spilled out of the earth in a cloud of dust, running several feet before stopping to turn and stare at the opening Dauy into the support pole
"They’re getting away," I said, hands on my knees as I pointed to the dusty elves, a short distance up the walk Seeing us, they turned and ran Chicken
"Let thenore Trent throwing up in the nearby bushes
"I owe the back up where it belonged "Da hi his mouth with the red ribbon he’d pulled froo hide in a hole in the ground! I can’t keep you alive if you don’t listen tomy arm off Trent, her eyes on the sky and her lips parted
I was bleeding, and I looked at ers until I realized that it wasn’t ht bicep was soaked where I had been yanking hi from them, and his hand was red when he wiped his rier Damn it, he was hurt
"You are my responsibility!" I shouted, ticked "If you ever do soain, I’ll kill you lared at me as he wiped his mouth with that ribbon, then let it fall "You’re notme of the elf who had alht now I a in his face "Deal with it!"
"Rachel, will you shut up!" Jenks exclaier probleone white faced, and like both Jenks and Ivy, was now staring at the river Turning, I felt mysirens taking on newleft the scene of an accident The cops, both the IS and the FIB, had soer to worry about
The arch was not there anys were mostly there, but the rest of it was in house-size chunks between the shattered posts
My sto what had happened "This wasn’tas if I didn’t believe it
"Maybe we should get out of here," Jenks suggested
"Good idea," Ivy said "Forget the rental They have tracking char for you now"
Nodding, I grabbed Trent’s sleeve and tugged hi char," Jenks said, then flehen Trent shuffled to his wheeled suitcase and limped silently beside ether and joined the walking wounded, heading against the wash of help flowing into the park fro city For once, our dusty and bloody appearance was unre, and there were lots of people eren’t
No way did a single support beaic that I’d pushed back into them This was not rass, I vowed that the Withons were going to pay With interest
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