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.The night was cold and clear.Tothe west, the moon gleamed on the ocean like a massive field of silverflowers.He was thankful the kitten did its part to uphold his ruse andburied its waste in the loose sand.Ukiah circled the house, using uphis hoarded gum, picking up occasional bright pebbles to examine.The cult had drawn heavy black curtains on the expansive windows,keeping in the light so no passing boats would realize people wereliving on the island."It's really not safe out here in the dark." Mouse shivered in thefreezing wind."We've got land mines everywhere."Ukiah slipped his most recent find a thumb-sized disk of matteblack stone into his jeans pocket, picked up Schrödinger, and wentback in, none the wiser on the location of his mouse.As they walked into the house, the phone rang.Mouse froze, a look of utter terror on his face as he stared at thephone.It rang again, the noise jarring in the sudden stillness of thehouse.aaTTnnssFFffooDDrrPPmmYYeeYYrrBB22.BBAAClick here to buyClick here to buywwmmwwoowwcc.AAYYBBYYBBr rIce came running down the stairs and paused at the bottom ofthe steps."Was that the phone?"The phone rang in answer."We're all here," Mouse whispered.Ice approached the phone with caution and snatched it up as ifit were a poisonous snake, barely holding it to his ear."Hello?"Ukiah's keen ears caught the voice on the other end."Ice? Is that you? It's Parity.""Parity?" Ice gasped as if punched."Parity.Only Parity no one else.None of them.But listen theyknow where you are! They're coming to get you.They're pissed as helland they plan to make you all one of them.""H-h-how?""It was so hard to think straight at first.I had to tell themsomething so I gave them some old addresses places I knew youwouldn't be.I told them about the boat slip.When we found the wolfboy there, I managed to slip away long enough to clear out my head.""How do they know about the island?" Ice growled."Ping Ping told them.They've got her at Totten Pond.I haven'tbeen able to get to her.She said something about the wiretapping.They traced the tap back to the satellite provider and you're the onlyconnection within miles of that GPS position."Ice glanced upward as if to see the satellite overhead,pinpointing them.aaTTnnssFFffooDDrrPPmmYYeeYYrrBB22.BBAAClick here to buyClick here to buywwmmwwoowwcc.AAYYBBYYBBr r"You've got to move before they get there.They'll be there inforce like a hundred of them.You've got to get out! I'll get hold ofyou later, somehow.I've got to go."The phone clicked to silence but Ice stood there with the phoneto his ear for another minute, pale and stunned.Finally he hung up,whispering hoarsely, "They know where we are.Start an evacuation."The cultists remained still, reflecting his shock."Where are we going to go?" Ether finally asked."I'll think of something," Ice said."Go on.Grab only the barenecessities and get them down to the boats.""We just believe him?" Link said."We don't have a choice." Ice sighed heavily.Link started to protest, "But he didn't sound like one of ""Move!" Ice shouted, and flung the phone at Link.The cult scattered like a flock of frightened birds.Ice focused on Ukiah."Is it possible? Could he be one of themand yet not be?"Prime had been a mutation a sole individual but they didn'tknow why.What had caused Prime to be different? If Parity had beenexposed to Kittanning, the Ontongard, and Invisible Red, maybe hehad built up a resistance."Yes or no?" Ice hissed.Ukiah replayed the conversation with Parity, listening to thewords and the tone of voice.There had been a slight drag, but itaaTTnnssFFffooDDrrPPmmYYeeYYrrBB22.BBAAClick here to buyClick here to buywwmmwwoowwcc.AAYYBBYYBBr rwasn't Hex's emotionally dead intonation.There had been fear,sorrow, and true concern things a Get seemed incapable ofunderstanding despite its human form, its original personalitydrowned under Hex's alien mind."Yes.He might be something new [ Pobierz caÅ‚ość w formacie PDF ]