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As if he had heard the question, Quinn said, “She’s in there She’s in there, with…it”

Caine looked at the mine shaft He had been down there before He knehat lay inside And now, the fuel rod, too

“We need to…,” Sam whimpered, unable to finish

Caine nodded “She must be dead after that”

“Maybe not,” Saed to say “Maybe not”

“There’s no way to get in there now, anyway It’s a wall of rock It’s a lot harder to move rock back out I’d have to move the whole mountain,” Caine said “Hours Days”

Sah he would bite it off Caine saw hih him

“May have another way,” Sa back down the trail

“Another way?” Caine asked

“Duck,” Sam said

And Caine did, instinctively There was a rush of wind and a cloud of dust and all at once, there was Brianna

And towing along behind her, like so inlike someone had just taken him on a roller-coaster ride from hell

“Are we there?” Duck, asked, his eyes squeezed shut “Am I done now?”

“You wa

nt to eat?” Zil roared from atop his convertible perch