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<h2>41</h2>
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<p>Her mouth opened, closed again, then she fell towards him. he
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caught her in his arms and held her tight, smoothing her hair as if
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she was a child.</p>
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<p>"Tell me," he finally said.</p>
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<p>She pulled back from him, body singing like a violin string, her
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face a mask of anguish.</p>
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<p>"It's come back," she said, her voice a dread whisper.</p>
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<p>"What has?" he asked, though he didn't have to.</p>
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<p>"It's come back again. It's all going to start over."</p>
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<p>"Where?"</p>
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<p>"I don't know yet. I saw it, and it saw me. It knows where I am.
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It knows where <em>we</em> are."</p>
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<p>He took her shoulders with both hands, gripping too tight. A
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dreadful surge of certainty clenched in the pit of his stomach as
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he looked into her eyes and saw the truth of it.</p>
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<p>He stayed like that, locked with her for a long time until
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finally he relaxed, and drew her back down on him, thinking. He had
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too many people to protect. And he'd found Lorna Breck. It might
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have brought them together, this <em><strong>Shrike</strong></em>,
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but he would never let it pull them apart.</p>
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<p>"Well, we won't wait for it this time." he said.</p>
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<p><strong>THE END.</strong></p>
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