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“It’s h-h-him,” Eddie stammered.
“Who?” Alma asked.
“The guy who was chasing me,” Eddie said. “He got my address from the corsair after all.”
“Run for your lives!” Mama Tonia shouted. She began to run-jog toward her and Papa Ito’s pod.
Several police officers ran out of the plant, talking into their walkie-talkies.
“What do we do?” Alma asked.
“The exorcism worked,” Xiomara said. “We cast him away. We are protected!”
“We’re not protected,” Delfino said. “He found us. He saw the police and spooked.”
“We should leave,” Eddie said. “We ought to find that hotel, now.”
Ted emerged from around the corner of the plant, from the shadows.
“That what I think it was?” Ted asked, scanning the sky.
“That was him,” Eddie said.
Ted spoke into his walkie-talkie. “I’ve got a visual on a whi
