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It went beyond the loss of hishe had known, everything he had been He’d been cool, once The ht a sad smile to his lips Quinn was cool One of a kind Everyone knew hiet his act, but Quinn had carried an aura of specialness with him

And noas an afterthought in the FAYZ Kids knew he had betrayed Sam to Caine They knew that Saone a little crazy on the day of the big battle Maybe more than a little crazy

The memories of his mom and dad, his old life, they were far away Like photos in an old album Not quite real Someone else’s memories, his pain; someone else’s life, his loss

The memories of the battle—those couldn’t even be calledfroo, but it wasn’t the past to Quinn, it was right here, right noays Like a parallel life happening siht and feeling the gun buck buck buck in his hands and seeing the coyotes and the kids, all h the arcs of the bullets

Finger off the trigger Too close to shoot He’d hit the kid He couldn’t do it, couldn’t take that chance, and so the coyote had leaped, jaws open, and—

And that wasn’t long ago and far away to Quinn It was right now Right here

“Okay,” Lana said, bringing him back to reality “Sloe’re almost there”

The headlights lit scruffy bushes and dirt and scatterings of rock Then a wooden beam, badly charred Quinn swerved to avoid it

He staain

The headlights illuminated a section of wall, just a few feet Charred as everywhere Two blackened cans of fruit or beans or whatever lay on their sides in the dirt

Despite hi edible left He re in the cabin, waiting for the coyotes to drag them out and kill them

That hen Sam had finally revealed the extent of his powers For the first tiht that shot from his hands

Quinn stopped the vehicle He put it into park

“It was here,” Quinn said softly

“What happened here?” Albert asked