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