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Please, don’t let us be too late

He couldn’t see her with his bare eyes, but used the ca hot box

Then the there on his TIC moved and Jude wanted to cry out in relief She was alive Who kne ht have endured, but she’d moved so there was hope

“Keeley,” he called again, crawling toward her “We’re here to get you out of this place”

He had no idea if she could hear hi If she could, he wanted her to knoas on his way

Finally, he reached the far corner of the room where she was huddled beneath her mother’s bed

Coughing, the little girl stared at him atery eyes, but didn’tfor her to come to him Was she asphyxiated?

In his gear, he couldn’t fit under the huge low-rise bed she was hidden beneath and wasn’t quite sure how he’dhurting her, but he had to get to her fast They had to get out of the building pronto

“Keeley, we have to go” He tried again, tugging on the corner post of the solid woodnailed down? “Come to me, honey Let me carry you out of this place”

“Don’t leave me”

He could barely make out her words Maybe he even lip-read theh his very soul

As did the terror in her big puffy eyes as she coughed again

“I won’t leave you, Keeley I promise Crawl toto get through to her, to let her know to come to him He stretched his arh that I can pull you to safety, Keeley, so we can get out of this building”

He heard a crash and knew another section of the structure had given way

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