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“I don't know what you kids did, but it worked,” the sheriff said. “We were looking at pure carnage.”
He pointed to the skyline.
“At least six or seven hundred people were caught in the explosion,” he said. “Science says they should have died. But when that second train blew through here, they were saved.”
“Pure miracle,” I said.
I was proud of Allegra.
Proud of myself too.
I did pretty good for dealing with something outside my skill level.
“She took away the evil spirits in the terminal too,” the sheriff said.
“Probably took them with her to the afterlife,” Darius said.
He clasped his hands together and said a prayer. Then he looked at the sky wistfully.
Destiny touched his shoulder. He grabbed her hand.
“She was something else,” he said. “I was starting to like her.”
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