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It happened as it always did, swallowing her swiftly and completely. Intense. Painful. Quick, vivid colors spun beneath her eyelids. Sounds were sharp inside her skull. Fire shot up through her bones. She may have been screaming and she wouldn__ have known. There was smoke in her nose, thick and black, and she couldn__ breathe. It stung her eyes and licked at her skin. Wood and metal crashed down as skin blistered and popped and she knew this wasn__ her, knew it was someone else, someone with a bigger body, bigger boots and darker jeans, and big ol_ hands with scars on the fingers. Men__ hands. Nails blunt and dirty with oil and grease and burning and- The cars were on fire. Paper burned and curled and rags ignited, the cement floor pockmarked by flash fires. Meat withered in her nose and she realized it was her. Him. Dancing embers blackened and burned bone. He screamed and she hoped she was not. He writhed and she really hoped she was not. He was dying, dead, and-

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You can tell Allah that when he judges you. Explain how you helped them build their obscene wealth. Explain how you helped them dole out scraps to the general population in order to keep it in check. Explain how you looked the other way while your employers raped the holy land for their own benefit and enjoyment. And why did you look the other way? So you could keep your modest civil servant post. Take the money,_ Siraj insisted as he pushed it across the table. __ou've done more to earn it than I have.

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Cal opened another cabinet and removed a bottle of anti-inflammatory tablets, placing them on the table in front of her along with the ice pack he snagged from the freezer.She glanced at him, suspicious. __hat__ this?_ __he drug I offer to all of my victims to make them more compliant. It__ ibuprofen,_ he said when she glared at him. __t__l help with the pain and hopefully keep the swelling down. As will the ice. Do you need help taking your boots off?___o that it__l be more difficult for me to run away when you bring out your collection of shrunken human heads?___ow you__e catching on.