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She stared at the faintly glowing symbol on her wrist, the pain slowly increasing along with the visibility of the mark.
"Only Maura, Karas, Carter, Kyle, and Gavin?"
"The only ones we're missing, yeah."
"Well, how much longer?"


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Boulder, Colorado:

She snuck up behind him, the smallest smirk plastered on her face. "Got you!" She squealed and wrapped her arms around his broad shoulders.
He laughed, tilting his head up to allow her to peck lovingly at his forehead. There were 3 または 4 もっと見る 秒 of giggles before there was a small tap on the window in front of them, causing them both to look.
A bluejay, with a small scrolled up piece of paper tied to it's leg.
"Is that...?" He leaned in closer, pulling the widow open.
"Well, this is a surprise!" She laughed a little uneasily, a smile slowly forming on her face.


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Vanuatu:

"You must be new to the business, huh?" He raised his eyebrows and smirked, shaking his head as he did so. The ropes around his hands and ankles were practically being ignored as he was talking to the thug 次 to him.
No response.
"Well, rule one? Think of something もっと見る clever to hold the guy who can teleport out of anything!"
He let out a laugh, and before anyone could grasp what was going on he was hanging upside down from a 木, ツリー branch. "Sayonara!" With a salute and one もっと見る laugh, we was on the 海岸, ショア of a beach. "Losers.." He muttered to himself cheerfully, and looked down at his bare feet wiggling around in the sand. The was a flutter of soft wings, causing him to turn to the dense forest behind him. Low and behold, there was blue カケス, ジェイ sailing toward him with a small scroll on it's ankle. "Hello there..." He whispered to himself, smiling and letting the bird land on his arm.
He slowly and gently pulled off the paper, and the bird immediately flitted away. It took him a 秒 to read it, and as soon as he did the smile on his face immediately faded. He dropped the paper, letting it float to the ground to reveal what he had seen.