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Before her aunt could pull away, Susan had wiped ashes down one of her cheeks. “Don’t be a fool. It’s Reaping, he thought. He said wheels.

The vast and humming silver shimmer ahead of them had no face, was the very antithesis of a face, in fact, but it had a body . “On our body-clocks, at least,” Eddie said. She took plenty of both, stuffing her pockets until they bulged and carrying more in her arms. Eddie stretched his hands out to grasp the sides of the central post, the black one.