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Ash’s sense that he had fallen into some surreal alternate reality was growing by the minute. He really did not have much of a chance to study the woman he rescued earlier. Between the darkness and the Legion soldiers swarming the city like a pack of rats at the dump, his focus had been on finding a safe place to hide until things calmed down a bit.
He was not kidding when he said he felt like the only one not told about the Halloween party. The woman sitting across from him had skin the color of a Douglas Fir tree. Her eyes were the rich color of the bark and her hair was as black as his own, only it looked soft and silky.
He gripped his hands together to keep from reaching across the small table to touch her hair to find out if it felt as soft as it looked. Her face was oval-shaped
