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1 We Crash and Burn a Party
SADIE KANE HERE
If you’re listening to this, congratulations! You survived Doomsday
I’d like to apologize straightaway for any inconvenience the end of the world may have caused you The earthquakes, rebellions, riots, tornadoes, floods, tsunaiant snake ed the sun—I’m afraid most of that was our fault Carter and I decided we should at least explain how it happened
This will probably be our last recording By the time you’ve heard our story, the reason for that will be obvious
Our proble sheep destroyed the King Tut exhibit
That night the Texas arden across the street from the Dallas Museum of Art Thedresses and hairdos like explosions of candy floss
(Carter says it’s called cotton candy in America I don’t care I was raised in London, so you’ll just have to keep up and learn the proper way of saying things)
A band played old-tiliicians did occasionally pop out of secret doors in the sculptures or summon sparks of fire to burn away pesky mosquitoes, but otherwise it seemed like quite a normal party
The leader of the Fifty-first No a plate of beef tacos e pulled hi I felt bad about that, but there wasn’t er he was in
“An attack?” He frowned “The Tut exhibit has been open for ato strike, wouldn’t he have done it already?”
JD was tall and stout, with a rugged, weathered face, feathery red hair, and hands as rough as bark He looked about forty, but it’s hard to tell with ht have been four hundred He wore a black suit with a bolo tie and a large silver Lone Star belt buckle, like a Wild West marshal
“Let’s talk on the way,” Carter said He started leading us toward the opposite side of the garden
I must admit my brother acted remarkably confident
He was still a monumental dork, of course His nappy brown hair had a chunk iven him a “love bite,” and you could tell from the nicks on his face that he hadn’t quiteBut since his fifteenth birthday he’d shot up in height and put onHe looked poised and mature in his black linen clothes, especially with that khopesh sword at his side I could al hysterically
[Why are you glaring at enerous description]
Cartera handful of tortilla chips “Apophis has a pattern,” he told JD “The other attacks all happened on the night of the new reatest Believe ht And he’ll hit it hard”