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And if…and if she could not bring herself to co deeper into it, deeper, toward the Darkness, unable to resist, well…

Taylor was not Brianna Breeze had an iirl Like any other girl except that she had the strange ability to think of a place and appear there instantaneously

And now Brianna was very late getting back The Breeze was never late Brianna didn’t kno to be late So had happened to her

So it was Taylor’s turn She felt it, knew it But Sa down the road, like he illing Brianna to appear

Dekka was more upset than Taylor had ever seen her Dekka was normally a rock, but the rock had some cracks in it now

Edilio kept a poker face Eyes straight ahead, waiting for orders Patient

No one wanted to pressure Saharder to act

It was up to Taylor Sam didn’t want to send her So it was up to her

She would do anything for Sa She supposed she was kind of in love with hih he was older than her and was totally into Astrid

Sam had saved Taylor’s life He had saved her sanity

Caine had decreed that uncooperative freaks at Coates be kept under control He had figured out that h a ki

d’s hands, and with Drake’s help he had moved quickly and decisively

It was called plastering It involved encasing a kid’s hands in a block of ceht rendered kids helpless At first Caine’s flunkies had fed thes Taylor and the others, including Brianna and Dekka, had lapped up bowls of cereal and milk like animals

Then trouble had broken out between the kids left in charge at Coates while Caine went down to grab control in Perdido Beach

The feedings had grown less frequent And then they had stopped altogether Taylor had eaten weeds poking up through gravel