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’s eyes snap to the stage

The light caail’s head

An ear-piercing scream rent the air

It could have been from her or her friend Maybe both She threw herself at the screens, as though she could so in front of her Stop the needless violence Stop her friend fro to her

“No!” Keiko raged, clawed, fought “No!”

The caail’s face From her eyes Her ears Her nose Her mouth

“No!” Keiko screamed “No!”

Her friend’s body spasmed and then crumpled

“Abigail!” Keiko roared, as though she could wake her with the noise

Strong arail Somehow

“Baby, princess, please…” The words barely registered

Because her friend lay in a bloody heap on the sixty-sixth-floor stage

And it should have been Keiko

Chapter Twenty-Four

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