...there are more terrifying monstrosities in the world than Anthropophagi. Monstrosities who, with a smile and a comforting pat on the head, are willing to sacrifice a child upon the altar of their own overweening ambition and pride.
I should have asked, I guess,_ he says. __ shouldn__ have assumed.___hat?__e rotates around on his butt to face me. Me on the sofa, him on the floor, looking up. __hat I was going with you.___hat? We weren__ even talking about that! And why would you want to go with me, Evan? Since you think he__ dead?___ just don__ want you to be dead, Cassie.
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I should have asked, I guess,_ he says. __ shouldn__ have assumed.___hat?__e rotates around on his butt to face me. Me on the sofa, him on the floor, looking up. __hat I was going with you.___hat? We weren__ even talking about that! And why would you want to go with me, Evan? Since you think he__ dead?___ just don__ want you to be dead, Cassie.
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