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He knew Shade would be back soon, and that they would once again flee the scene, run away to their next illegal, temporary abode

Shade He knew she was trying desperately to ht And he knew that she could not

Sad, he thought, that it had taken his own destruction to teach Shade huht have allowed theether, to be still what they had once been: lovers The arrogance in Shade, the obsession with the FAYZ, and the seething, iainst the creature that had killed her one, but now they were tempered by reality By the brutal reality of unintended consequences

Unintended Consequences, Exhibit A: Malik Tenerife

But his thoughts scattered under a sudden surge of attention from the Dark Watchers They seeer rose Whoever, whatever they were, they had no right! They had no right to torture him this way!

He almost didn’t do it He almost convinced himself it was futile and juvenile and pointless

He almost did not lash out at the Dark Watchers

But Malik was controlling himself on multiple fronts all at once, and he was all out of patience

No answers? Nothing to say toto say to you

He summoned all his will, all his new and unwanted power, and fixed clearly in his mind not the picture of the Dark Watchers, for they had no shape or form, but the idea of them, the concept of the Dark Watchers, the e down froed into his brain, dohich calars of the mind

Wires, he reasoned, carry current in both directions They wanted the Malik experience? Fine

Enjoy, assholes

Malik fired a ed and roared silently at theony, his sadness, his despair and rage at them, them, them

“Oh!” Malik cried out His eyes flew open

“What?” Cruz asked, knee-walking to him