I’m healthy. I’m still bleeding. Please don’t waste it.
Stefan murmured, “I’ll stop the bleeding.” But when she bent to
him, as she had known he would, he drank.
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By now Matt and Mrs. Flowers couldn’t ignore the blinding lights
anymore. They had to go outside.
But just as Matt opened the door there was—well, Matt didn’t
know what it was. Something blasted straight out of the ground and into
the sky, where it got smaller and smaller, became a star, and
disappeared.
A meteor that had gone through the Earth? But wouldn’t that mean
tsunamis and earthquakes and shockwaves and forest fires and maybe
even the Earth ripping apart? If one meteor that hit the surface could kill
off all the dinosaurs…
The light that had been shining upward had faded slightly.
“Well, bless my soul,” said Mrs. Flowers in a small, shaken voice.
“Matt, dear, are you all right?”
“Yes, ma’am. But…” Matt’s vocabulary couldn’t stand the strain.
“What the hell was it?”
And to his slight surprise, Mrs. Flowers said, “My sentiments
exactly!”
“Wait—there’s something moving. Get back!”
“Dear Matt, be careful with that gun…”
“It’s people! Oh, my God! It’s Elena.” Matt abruptly sat down on
the