Part 90 (2/2)

As I plunged down into the pit, I wanted to hear her screams. I wanted to hear a howl of agony.

All I heard was the mad laughter of an old woman.

And something else.

The screams of men in terrible, unbearable, unending pain.

16.

echo teAm It was Top who found me.

He later said that I was standing alone in the center of the

ancient town square. Just standing there.

He tried calling my name.Tried shaking me.

In the end, he had to slap me.That apparently had pulled me back from the edge of wherever I was. But only halfway, so he

belted me again.

I came all the way back and very nearly kicked the s.h.i.+t out

of him, purely by reflex.Top knows me, though, and as soon as

I began to react, he danced out of the way, hands up in a no-problems gesture, staying well out of range of my hands and feet. ”Cap'n . . . Cap!” he yelled.

That part I heard.

My eyes then cleared, and I saw that it was just the two of us

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