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A slow grin spread across his face "See You can do it See the future We should start testing it out We should--"

I tuned hiht, and now that ere far away fro--a quiet one, too If I closed et the last fifteen minutes had happened

For about the millionth tiet word to hier

"You wouldn’t happen to have a cell that works?" I asked Even if I couldn’t really talk to hi with Luciana

"No service out here And Luciana is the only one who kno to turn our phone on But…"

I knew it He’d been holding out on me "Please Just this once I need to talk to Dastien He has to knohat I just saw"

"The only landline that’s always turned on is in Luciana’s house She’s busy at theand Daniel’s at our house--"

"Youphone?" And he hadn’t toldto hear about this

"And Internet All of us have to ask per on every phone bill"

What was this? A fascist regime? No wonder they hadn’t told me about the phone The more I learned about Luciana, the more I confirmed that she was a coets the next phone bill You can put all the blaht for a second, and I crossedthis co word to Dastien was imperative

"This way," he said finally, and I let out a sigh of relief

He paused in front of a white house four houses down and across the street froet you the portable from inside Probably better if we stay out here in case she coiven the circu Dastien’s voice

Raphael reappeared a second later with the phone in his hand "Be fast I don’t knoends"

I nodded "I appreciate it" I quickly dialed Dastien’s cell

Meredith answered "Dastien’s phone"

Why did she have his phone? "Hey, it’s me"

"Tessa?"