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.Thomas McGee might have done something monstrous, and become a monster in the process, but the splintering of the city had also given both Trix and Anne second chances at the love they’d always wanted.“Remember,” Sally said, “the only way is to fool her.Holly goes forward.You’re offering her.”“She’ll never believe that,” Jim said.“It’ll confuse her long enough for you to tackle her.”“And then?”“And then kill her.”They shuffled their feet, none of them wanting to catch another’s eye.“That’s just nasty,” Holly said at last.Trix sighed and looked around.The street was relatively undamaged other than smashed glass and a few fallen tiles.People walked here and there with shopping bags, panic-buying food and drink.Others stood on their stoops and watched the world go by, perhaps counting their blessings.What would they think of this strange group of scruffy, serious people?“Gotta be done,” Trix said softly.Though her voice was strong, she had no idea if she could do what Sally asked.“So these things in us?” Jim asked.“I’ve already instructed them,” Sally said.“When it’s over, they leave.One way or another.”“Thanks for your vote of confidence,” Jim said.But Sally’s awkward smile made him realize something—she was socially inept, even for a girl of her age.She might be the Oracle, but that meant she would never be normal.Relationships were her work, in many ways, but she could never have one of her own.She was doomed to a life alone.It made him fear for Holly, and wonder whether there had been Oracles in the past who had managed to have love in their lives.“Good luck,” Sally said, and she turned and walked away.“Sally,” Jim said.The girl paused and turned around, and Trix had a sudden, shattering sense of déjà vu.She remembered watching a program once with Jim and Jenny about the discovery of the concentration camps in Germany and Poland.It had been a moment of pure immersion, when the camera had focused on a young girl walking behind a wire fence.She had paused and turned to look at the camera, and even that seventy-year-old footage had done nothing to lessen that girl’s haunting, hopeless expression.Who is she where is she now is she still alive? Trix had thought, and it had become a preoccupation of hers to find out.She never had, and she often dreamed of that little girl, still standing there staring through a fence, waiting to be discovered.Sally reminded her of that little girl now—eyes deepened by exhaustion, mouth slack, her skin wan and ashy.“It’ll be okay!” Trix said.Sally glanced at her and smiled, and Trix thought perhaps she’d found that little girl at last.“I’ll be watching from here,” Sally said, “but you’ll be a world away.I don’t have to stand here and watch.” She tapped her foot on the sidewalk and looked down at the tinkle of broken glass.“Besides, I’ve got plenty to keep me occupied now.So many who need my help.”They watched her leave.“So, what’re you waiting for?” Anne asked.She sat on a fire hydrant, arms crossed, head tilted to one side.“Get it done, and get your cute ass back here.”Holly giggled.Even Jenny managed a soft laugh and said, “That’s not something I ever thought I’d say.”“Don’t know what you’re missing,” Anne said, and winked at her.The two women, facets of each other, smiled conspiratorially.“So?” Trix said.She looked from Jim to Jenny to Holly and felt a rush of love.“So,” Jim said.And as they walked along the street toward Veronica’s house, even Holly was silent, because the unspoken truth hung heavy around them.If they were successful, today would end with a woman dead by their hands.“We need to go upstairs to your bedroom,” Trix said, and the man’s expression barely changed.Behind him in the hallway stood another version of him, slightly plumper, longer-haired, but wearing the same shell-shocked expression.As both wives peered from the living room doorway, Trix began to really understand how fundamentally everything here had changed.Her Boston was still safe and sound, ignorant in its single existence of anything so surreal as what she was witnessing right now.But here, everything was different.The earthquake had not only taken lives, it had shattered them as well.The two worlds where these merged Bostons had once been different were forever changed.How would people overcome such a shock? How could they?But then she saw the two teenaged girls coming giggling down the stairs, and she thought maybe it would be fine after all.“You two again!” one of the girls said.“You know these people?” the other girl asked.“Sure.Well.Not really.But they were in our house, and Dad scared them off.”“I like your hair,” the other girl said.“Thanks,” Trix said
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