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“No,” Sam whispered “It’s ready for me Duck”

“What about him?”

“Duck…,” Sam said, and fell, facedown He did not move

“You got soround?” Caine shrilled at Duck “You got some nuclear bomb in your pocket?”

Duck did not answer

“Sa its weight, undulating toward Caine, with Lana’s weeping, twisted face, herbut Caine unable to hear fro it was over, knowing…

The gaiaphage poured liquid fire into Caine’s brain, overwhel consciousness with pain

You defy me?

Caine rocked back, barely kept his feet

“Throw me!” Duck cried

I ae!

“Throw

“What?” Caine cried

“Hard as you can!”

The gaiaphage thought nothing of the soft, human body that fleard him