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With a sigh, I continue on My narcolepsy is about to cohosts

I stop a few feet froain, the little girl’s erated O, her eyes black and fathoh h me My insides immediately feel icy

I jerk around She’s not behind me

Gone Unless she’s inside of e your mind, I’m not bad to talk to For an adult And, for the record, you don’t scare "

I decide I’ll talk to Jake and Gabriel about her after I rest Sydney and Gabriel both have lived here for a while Have they had encounters with the little girl before? If not, whythat a lot lately Right now I feel like I’m about to drop onto the floor Seriously I’ve battled newlings and vamps My poor neck has been latched on to by Julian Arcos, for Christ’s sake I still shudder at thatmy skin or not, he’s just flat-out creepy He even asked s didn’t work out with Eli Really?

Considering all that, I can handle the screairl And, for the record, I did look into her eyes Nothing happened

Inside my room, I bend down to kick off my boots

Only then do I realize I’m too late

In the next second, I tip over My body is flush with the floor My eyes close

It’s as good a bed as any

I’h I can’t say where I’ It’s dark It’s raining And after I pass St Giles’, I turn down a narrow close Suddenly I’lad you’re here," a voice says from inside "Come You’re just in tiure ahead of , threadbare sofa of blue-and-black plaid cloth The figure keeps his back toa dark cloak with a hood

"Turn around and face me," I say, and he chuckles

"I cannot Not now You won’t understand if I do"

I ed man asleep on the sofa On the table beside him, a half-finished pint of beer The TV is silent, but the screen depicts a UK cop show I look at the figure "What are you doing?"

"Watch"

The figure waves his hand over the h he aze back to the sleeping ins to sins to beat his stomach with his hands

"Help e toward hiirl," he says "You cannot stop it"