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“What do you mean, too late?” I asked. My nerves suddenly felt very cold.
“He thinks the longer you stay here, in Halli’s body, the greater the risk of...deterioration.”
I didn’t like the sound of that. At all. “What kind of deterioration?”
“Mental. Physical. All aspects.”
Daniel and I stared at each other.
“So what you’re saying...”
“You could die,” Daniel said. “Halli, too. If we have any hope of reversing the process, it needs to happen soon. Quickly.”
I swallowed against a dry mouth. My heart was fluttering, and not in a good way.
“I could die.”
“You both could,” Daniel answered.
Red snuffled into my neck just then, reminding me of other times when I’d relied on petting him to help calm myself. Right now I didn’t think any amount of petting would do the trick.
“But...how
