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“Ambulance is on the way,” Nolan reported

And Sandra thought, Well, he certainly won’t sleep with ht ca else was happening on that eerie picture-in-picture view in her head

She was seeing a falling drop of liquid that er than the terrifying bugs with her face shtmare insects with her own damned eyes

The drop landed It swept around the two bugs, engulfing thes It chewed burning holes into those insect carapaces It burned away those distorted reflections of her own face like an old-time filmstrip jaone

The picture frames in her head blinked out

They were gone as fast as they had come

Sandra stood now, seeing only through her own eyes, seeing only as real

She laughed “Hah-hah-hah-hah Hahahahahahahah!”

And then she screamed “Ahhhh! Aaaaaahhhh! You’re devils! Devils!”

Nolanaardly onto the table She slipped, skinned her knee against the edge, stared down at the blood, and shrieked, shrieked like a

She snatched up a knife Not a very big knife, just a dinner knife with a point and modest serrations She stabbed it into Nolan’s thick bicep

The strong ht have expected

“Hah! Hah, devil!” Sandra yelled, happy at the sight of his blood, fascinated

Wade and Quentin backpedaled,shot for Best Actress

In Sandra’s eyes they were not backing away, they were coers, and liquid fire dripping from their eyeballs—it was all about the eyeballs, it was there, in the eyes, the demons