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“Earmuffs,” Saffron sobbed “That’s all it takes to stop you!”

Earmuffs and the Rockborn, Dillon corrected silently He flashed on the old Verizon ads: Can you hearthereshould make a note in his comedy notebooklater

“We have to get out of here, find some new place, some place to hide, toto restto think,” Dillon said

“Think?” Saffron snarled “Every oes by they’ll be !”

An army, that hat Dillon needed, an army Not the ancient relics who pulled the slot-er, fitter, more capable people

“You were right about one thing you said,” Dillon said to Saffron as they pushed through the killing crowds using Dillon’s voice to part the waters “I need an ar to find them?”

Saffron was completely unprepared for the level of insanity in the street She cowered and flinched and said, “That crazy man back there almost stabbed me!”

Then Dillon spotted sorabbed her as she tried to bite his ar me Answer me: Why are you here?”

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“This gaht?”

The wo for souess”

Dillon and Saffron exchanged glances A ed need to kill, kill, kill, ran his Jeep into a gaggle of frantic pedestrians, throwing broken bodies left and right before stalling out atop a pile of squir victims

“Get out,” Dillon ordered thethat he couldn’t help himself, couldn’t stop Dillon juer door for Saffron, and saw her dragged back by a large bald man

“Hey, you, baldy! Leave her alone!”