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Mara swallows hard.

“I can do it,” she says. “I want to do it. For Erin, for Valerie, for everyone

he’s killed and everyone else he’ll hurt.”

She lays her right palm over the scar on her left wrist, and the left palm over

the scar on the right, clamping her hands tight like a covenant, like an oath.

“And I want to do I it for me. He tried to kill me, too. I’m only alive because

of myself. Because I ran down that fucking mountain.”

“Yes, you did,” I say, feeling another bolt of guilt. I could have carried her

down. But I wasn’t awake yet. Mara hadn’t alivened me.

I explain to her, “Shaw has to die to protect you. But also, because I’m

responsible. I didn’t think so at the time. I thought whatever he did was his

business, and had nothing to do with me. I see it differently now. I may not

be Doctor Frankenstein, but I helped flip the switch on that particular

monster.”

“We’re the only ones who can stop him,” Mara says.

“We’re the only ones who will.”

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