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"There's no ti up swiftly "Come on Don't you realize what'll happen once they discover your talent? They'll fight over you They'll kill each other--kill you--for the right to own you"

"Oh, but I don't belong to anybody," said Leonard Mark He looked at Saul "No Not even you"

Saul jerked his head "I didn't even think of that"

"Didn't you now?" Mark laughed

"We haven't ti "Come on!"

"I don't want to I'ht here until those men show up You're a little too possessive My life's my own"

Saul felt an ugliness in hian to twist "Youheard what I said"

"How very quickly you changed from a friend to an enemy, observed Mark

Saul hit at hi down Mark ducked aside, laughing "No, you don't!" They were in the center of Tied up, hot, into the blue air

"It's a lie!" cried Saul, staggering under the visual i You'll be killed!"

Mark sat there on the pave at his joke "Let them come I can fool them all!"

New York distracted Saul It was meant to distract--meant to keep his attention with its unholy beauty, after soMark he could only stand, drinking in the alien but familiar scene

He shut his eyes "No" And fell forward, dragging Mark with hiht violently He smashed at Mark's chin

Silence

Mark lay on the sea bottom