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She was out of the casino doors, down the driveway and turning onto the Strip before the “as done resonating

She had run fast before But this was Cruz

She felt her clothing flap and shred She felt the way her Plasticine body reshaped itself to use the wind to push her down, to keep her fro off wildly into the air like some out-of-control race car

Her legs were a blur Her hands moved so fast she felt the heat of friction

The Strip blew past Bodies were blurs

She skidded int

o a turn and there were the tanks She ran past theust of wind like a tractor trailer passing at a thousand miles an hour

In a split second she saw it: the gas truck The i slowly down and down

At any second the gas fumes would

No time!

She kicked off, leaped into the air going the speed of sound, bounced off a man’s shoulders, stretched out her hand

With her accelerated vision she saw the very ht the vapor Saw the spark beco in midair

Shade snatched the toy in

The wind of her passing sucked the oxygen away, and the flamedied

Shade landed at the far edge of the , and she plowed into three people, a hundred pounds of ar two instantly, spinning the other like a top