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“Watch out, D!”
With Lina’s cry, D made a backward leap of some ten feet. While still in
midair, a mass of energy that defied imagination struck his beautiful face.
The air rang twice, with a bang like an air-filled paper bag suddenly
popped.

Bess and Fern’s bodies had swollen from the inside, then blown apart in
an explosion of blood and chunks of flesh. With gory spray and scraps of
meat raining down on her, Lina let out a scream.

The wind, which had just died down, rattled the barn on a completely
different scale. Beams of heavy steel alloy bent, and screws shot loose.
D realized that the energy mass that had annihilated the bodies of Fern
and Bess was the same life-form that he’d encountered three times before.
The laws of physics stated that two things couldn’t occupy the same place
at the same time.

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