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“I wish I’d seen ain”

“Yeah?”

She was silent for a ured out how to control the proto would have been different This wouldn’t be happening”

“So else would be,” A up close, you wouldn’t think it was better”

“Do you think Captain Holden would ever —”

The floor rose up and punched As By instinct, he tried to roll, but the attack was too wide There was no way to get around it The screen shattered; the lights failed So loud happened For a few seconds, he was rattled around the roo hi went black

An endless ht flickered on Clarissa’s bed was on its side, the girl poured out of it to the floor A pool of clear liquid widened around the ent smell like coolant and alcohol The thick wire-and-bulletproof-glasshad shattered in its frame and was now opaque as snow A network of cracks laced the wall Frohter bubbled up, and Amos felt his own feral s, the wail rising and stuttering and rising again He didn’t know if it was supposed to sound like that or if the shock wave had broken it

“You all in one piece there, Peaches?”

“Not sure My hand really hurts May have broken so”

He got to his feet He hurt everywhere But long faed, so he shoved the hurt to one side and ignored it Either the ground was still shaking a little or he was “Well, if you did, that’ll suck” The door to the hall was closed, but it looked wrong Like the fraain

“We’re ten stories underground,” Clarissa said

“Yeah”

“If it was like this for us, how bad is it up top?”

“Don’t know,” Ao see”

She sat up Her left hand was already swollen to about twice the size of the right one, so soown, she looked like a ghost So yet Which, he figured, ht be accurate