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You're both going to die here. I amfrightened, Renie. There was another explosive _pop,_ then another,and the very ground beneath him shot out radiating crooked black lines, so that for a moment itseemed he stood at the center of a spiderweb. _ Who_ are _you? _ From an incomprehensible distance, a murmur: _ I am .

Hedid not seem angry but distant, like a soldier between one dreadful battle and the next. I've played it back thirty times, done every kind of analysis I could. We're strangers here, but we won't hurt you. She took a long, deep breath, then lifted herhand.