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Still, she focused her thoughts, i She concentrated all her mind on that

“Trapped,” Diana said bitterly

“Not for long We bust out of here and bring him what he needs,” Drake said

“Gaiaphage That’s what Caine calls it when he’s ranting,” Diana said “Shouldn’t you know your god’s name?”

Brittney did not feel any change in her arm

A terrible suspicion came to her There was an awful silence from within her own body She listened Strained to hear, to feel, the ever-present thump…thump…

Her heart It was not beating

“Gaiaphage?” Jack said, sounding interested “A ‘phage’ is another word for a computer virus A worm, actually”

Her heart wasn’t beating

She wasn’t alive

No, that rong, she told herself Dead things don’t hear Dead things cannot htly so no one would notice

There could be only one explanation Caine and Drake had killed her But Jesus had not taken her up into Heaven to be reunited with her brother Instead, He had granted her this power To live, still, a while, though she was dead

To live long enough to accomplish His will

“A phage is code Software that sort of eats other software,” Jack said in his pedantic way

Brittney had no doubt what God had chosen her to do Why He had kept her alive