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Rock snapped and creaked

No! the hated voice cried in Caine’s mind

“I’rated

No! You will not!

Caine faltered There were knives in his brain, knives stabbing and stabbing, and the agony was beyond i

“Won’t I?” Caine said

Caine raised his hands high He reached with his power into the cave and yanked his arms back

Tons of loose rock, wooden support beams, the shattered fuel rod, a battered old pickup truck, the body of Herure of a wounded but still living Drake Merwin, ca out of the cave Like the cave had vomited up its contents

The mass of it froze in midair And then, as Caine foran to twirl It swirled like a tornado

And then, with Drake’s cries lost in the howling madness, Caine swept his ar mass down the mine shaft entrance

The noise was so great that Jack clapped his hands over his ears

Then, a slow-, earthquake jolt as the mine shaft collapsed Millions of pounds of rock closed the shaft forever

Caine walked on wobbly legs to Diana He knelt beside her She wasn’tHe put his ear next to her lovely

But when he laid his palhtest rise and fall

Gently he rolled her over The dae to the side of her head ful to the touch He couldn’t see clearly, tears filled his eyes, but he could feel a warm slipperiness where her temple should be smooth