Seeing that face again sends her back to running through a cornfield, her heart in her throat as gunfire zipped through the stalks around her. For a moment the fear from the memory is so immediate that she can't move and then his and Allison's words catch up with her.
"No!" She cries out, raising her hand to send the Swede flying using the sound of the pounding of her own heart in her ears. She can't afford to lose anyone else. Not any of her brothers and not Allison.
She can feel the rush of power as it moves through her, her emotions strengthening it, until it suddenly dissipates as unbearable pain hits her square in the stomach. She gasps in surprise, her hand automatically moving to where she's just been shot. She looks to her siblings with utter shock before the world tilts under her feet and her knees give way.
Five raises his gun and shoots the Swede between the eyes.
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"No!" She cries out, raising her hand to send the Swede flying using the sound of the pounding of her own heart in her ears. She can't afford to lose anyone else. Not any of her brothers and not Allison.
She can feel the rush of power as it moves through her, her emotions strengthening it, until it suddenly dissipates as unbearable pain hits her square in the stomach. She gasps in surprise, her hand automatically moving to where she's just been shot. She looks to her siblings with utter shock before the world tilts under her feet and her knees give way.
Five raises his gun and shoots the Swede between the eyes.