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The way he said it, as if he doubted that that was the reason. He drummed his fingers on the mattress. “What the hell is going on with Teacup? They should be back by now.” “I’ll go check,” I said. “Like hell you will. This is turning into every horror movie ever made. You know? Getting picked off one by one. Uh-uh. Five more minutes.” We fell silent, listening. But there was only the wind whispering in the poorly sealed window and the constant undercurrent of rats scratching in the walls. Teacup was obsessed with them. I listened to hours of her and Ringer plotting their demise. That annoying lecturing tone of Ringer’s, explaining how the population was out of control: The hotel had more rats than we had bullets. “Rats,” Ben said, as if he read my mind. “Rats, rats, rats. Hundreds of rats. Thousands of rats. More rats than us now. Planet of the rats.” He laughed hoarsely. Maybe he was delirious. “You know what’s been bugging the hell out of me? Vosch telling us they’ve been watching us for centuries. Like, how is that possible? Oh, I get how it’s possible, but I don’t get why they didn’t attack us then. How many people were on Earth when we built the pyramids? Why would you wait until there’re seven billion of us spread out over every continent with technology a little more advanced than spears and clubs? You like a challenge? The time to exterminate the vermin in your new house isn’t after the vermin outnumber you. What about Evan? He say anything about that?” I cleared my throat. “He said they were divided over whether to exterminate us.” “Huh. So maybe they debated it for six thousand years. Dicked around because nobody could make up his mind, until someone said, ‘Oh, what the hell, let’s just off the bastards.’” “I don’t know. I don’t have the answers.” I was feeling a little defensive. As if knowing Evan meant I should know everything. “Vosch could have been lying, I guess,” Ben mused. “I don’t know, to get in our heads, mess with us. He messed with me from the start.” He looked at me, then looked away. “Shouldn’t admit this, but I worshipped the guy. I thought he was, like . . .” He twirled his hand in the air, searching for the words. “The best of us.” His shoulders began to shake. At first, I thought it must be the fever, and then I thought it could be something else, so I left my spot by the window and went to him. For guys, breaking down is a private thing. Never let them see you cry, means you’re weak, means you’re soft, a baby, a wuss. Not very manly and all that BS. I couldn’t imagine the pre-Arrival Ben Parish crying in front of anyone, the guy who had everything, the boy who all the other boys wanted to be, the one who broke others’ hearts and never suffered his own to be broken. I sat beside him. I didn’t touch him. I didn’t speak. He was where he was and I was where I was. “Sorry,” he said. I shook my head. “Don’t be.” He wiped the back of his hand against one cheek, then the other cheek. “You know what he told me? Well, more like promised. He promised he would empty me. He would empty me and fill me up with hate. But he broke that promise. He didn’t fill me with hate. He filled me with hope.” I understood. In the safe room, a billion upraised faces populating the infinite, and the eyes that sought mine, and the question in those eyes too horrible to put into words, Will I live? It’s all connected. The Others understood that, understood it better than most of us. No hope without faith, no faith without hope, no love without trust, no trust without love. Remove one and the entire human house of cards collapses. It was like Vosch wanted Ben to discover the truth. Wanted to teach him the hopelessness of hope. And what could be the point of that? If they wanted to annihilate us, why didn’t they just go ahead and annihilate us? There must be a dozen ways to wipe us out quickly, but they drew it out in five waves of escalating horror. Why?
Up to now, I always thought that the Others felt nothing toward us except disdain with maybe a little disgust mixed in, the way we feel about rats and cockroaches and bedbugs and other nasty lower forms of life. Nothing personal, humans, but you gotta go. It never occurred to me that it could be entirely personal. That simply killing us isn’t enough. “They hate us,” I said, as much to myself as to him. Ben looked at me, startled. And I looked back at him, scared. “There’s no other explanation.” “They don’t hate us, Cassie,” he said gently, the way you talk to a frightened little kid. “We just had what they want.” “No.” Now my cheeks were wet with tears. The 5th Wave had one explanation and only one. Any other possible reason was absurd. “This isn’t about ripping the planet away from us, Ben. This is about ripping us.”
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the lip for an eternity. Before ete
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“That doesn’t answer my questio
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I wasn’t holding up well. He was
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lowered her carefully onto Evan, le
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41 “IT’S A TEST,” Evan said.
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42 OH, BROTHER. Guys. I tossed Bear
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44 THEN DUMBO, with perfect timing,
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“Evan, I’m not even sure I unde
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“Don’t be an idiot!” he shout
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47 THE SPOTLIGHT HIT NEXT: Brillian
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48 I PAUSED FOR a half second at th
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49 HE DIDN’T LIKE being around th
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from melted snow, rising up, floppi
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51 MY REACTION IS months in the mak
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This is the bind. This is the trap.
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Now I’m standing on the shores of
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teacher. “That’s what I’ve co
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Nodding seriously. “I’ll get ri
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57 CLAIRE TIES a rubber strap aroun
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58 THERE IS NO DAY or night anymore
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He turns, surprised. My face is hot
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“You said you didn’t play,” I
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the truth was that most days my fat
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He’s quiet for the next couple of
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64 I HADN’T SEEN Vosch in days. T
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when the door opens and Claire come
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“Seriously? You don’t know?”
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67 CLAIRE STAGGERS AWAY, blood pour
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68 JUMBO SHOULD HAVE a knife on him
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73 I HEAD BACK to the cockpit, wher
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75 I AM FALLING at terminal velocit
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the location.” “I’ve seen not
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77 AS WE APPROACH, the complex seem
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78 ROTTEN MILK. The stench of the p
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79 THERE’S LITTLE DIFFERENCE betw
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80 HE LIFTS ME from the floor. He c
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81 FOR A WEEK, he is my sole compan
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Outside, the bitter harvest burns.
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83 ON THE EIGHTH DAY, the chopper r
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84 COVERED IN ASH and dust, five gr
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