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“One drop for you, one for me,” he said. “And it will be real.Realthe waywewant it to be real.”
He bent and tilted the vial towards me, whisperingcareful, careful, just a drop…
“No!” I clawed and squirmed. He shifted and knelt across my hips.
“I opened it,” he told me, “you don’t have to suffer for this.”
“I don’t care about that! Stop it!”
The liquid slid to the mouth of the vial, a glowing drop about to fall.
“No!”I screamed. “No! No! No!”
I screamed and raked at him with everything I had.
A drop fell. I jerked away. It splattered my pillow case.
“Holdstill!” he snapped. “Do you want to die? Do you want to live like this!?”
I screamed.“Get off me!”
He leaned so hard I couldn’t breathe. I tried to draw breath to scream again. Rasped. I flailed. My vision got dim from lack of air.
No, no, no, no.
Another drop glowed above my head.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
I tried to sob, kept fighting.
The bedroom door splintered inward and a dark shape flew through, streaking over the bed.
The vial went flying, a glowing blue spear.
No…
I rolled over to try to grab it, but flopped off the bed into a twitching heap on the floor.
No…
Searle impacted the wall. Wood and sheetrock crunched.
Demetrius, breathing so hard his entire muscled body moved, had Searle by the throat and crumpled into the sheetrock. He bellowed, “What are youdoing?”
The vial landed on the ground, closing with an audible chime of bells, and rolled across the air conditioning grate.
I dragged myself semi-up, patting myself all over. Had the tears hit me? Had the drop fallen? I sobbed from the ceaseless twitching that didn’t even let me gonowand the fever that rotted my brain once the perfume had stopped and I crashed back into the gibbering, hot nightmare.
Had the drop hit me?
Sterling…
I howled for him.
He did not answer.
Marcella was suddenly there, with Emily, as Henri crowded into the room as well.
