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where wou

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would sta

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path

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use a friendly f

judgment, Zara foun

a supply closet and led

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ery breath, every time their hands alm

his close to someo

d the second floor, "how long

plied, then immediate

be stuck at a school most stud

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have rem

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g, I had the strangest feeling

ulse qui

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e one of those face

and Zara caught a

understorms, with an underlying sha

ing and wrong at

hese dreams," Ka

gs that can't be real and in some of them

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creatures that aren't

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you're not lik

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lately, though she'd tried to d

where she could shift into somet

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lose enough that she could feel t

you, I feel like I'm about to

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lver eyes and felt some

er chest, followed by a sensation

g inside her

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ectricity through

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at where his hand

but there was somet

like his blood wasn't

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something else, but you

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re life - like she was a puzzle

sometimes," she said, gen

this," Kai

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in his eyes, that made her think h

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expression of frustration and lo

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stairs, Zara could fee

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