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“I’ with Orc in the back? Boy is farting so terrible”

“Cabbage,” Taylor said

“Any second now You know Brianna,” Edilio said

The four of them waited Sam kept his eyes on the road Not that he would see her when she got back

“Taking a while,” Taylor said “I mean, for her”

No one spoke after that Not as two minutes passed Then three minutes Five interminable minutes

“Oh, my God,” Dekka whispered “Brianna” She closed her eyes and see

“She’d be back by now,” Sa”

He felt sick to his stomach Sick down to his bones

Lana felt the dread growing on her She was prepared She kneas co

“What is this place?” Cookie asked, feeling so, seething evil that was now so close

“It used to be atown,” Lana said “Gold miners, back in, like, the 1800s or whatever”

“Like cowboys?”

“I guess so”

They walked through the ghost town, the shabby, tumble-doreck of a place that had no doubt once been someone’s dream of a future metropolis The mines had mostly played out back in the late 1800s