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He lay awake for a long time and listened to the soft hiss of the flame in his head. God, I hope I did the right thing. I truly believe my heart is in the right place. But love was a mysterious, deceptive force, and one of the few areas in which Steve didn’t trust his powers of judgment the full hundred percent

You’ve set off on a road full of pitfalls, Steve, with no way of knowing what the consequences might be. Maybe this kind of intervention isn’t going to help Tyler at all—did that ever occur to you?

Oh, fuck off. No way am I going to send my son to Doodletown. Over my dead body

At the end of the trail was always Black Spring, the end-of-the-line from the cold outside world, where no one knew their names or their way of life

Tyler abruptly stopped moving the dull circle of yellow light and listened to the sound

Something was moving there. On the edge of the roof crouched a snow-white cat: lean, on the hunt

Since the blood first showed on Saturday, the seven-member HEX staff

primitive human urge to channel fear, transform it into rage … and find a scapegoat

Robert Grim cut off the conversation, his thoughts wandered off to dwell on a tempting fantasy in which he bit off Colton Mathers’s scrotum, spat it out, and beat his convulsing testicles to a pulp with a croquet mallet on his mother’s old butcher block. It’s wasn’t a very soothing thought, but it gave him a joyless satisfaction nonetheless.

It was as if time had come full circle

And didn’t He say that the punishment would have four faces: the plague, the sword, famine, and, uh … eh…” The sheep farmer touched the screen of his tablet. When it didn’t respond, he tapped it several more times irritably. “Exile!”