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The Happy(?) LeaderJonah wasn't sure what motivated him to move, but he shuffled forward like the man asked. Terrence did the same. Reena didn't wake up Douglas, because she never took her eyes off of the stranger, so the guy lifted him off of the ground in a fireman's carry and hauled him with no trouble.
Now Jonah could relate to Douglas's nausea. His own stomach churned, and it took all his remaining strength to prevent a game of show and tell with his lunch. He didn't know what was going on. His bodily functions and emotions were all out of whack. That man—the 49er or whatever his name was (didn't that name have something to do with gold?)—really messed him up. He'd voiced Jonah's inner torments…and he had no way of knowing them. Did it have something to do with the glowing dog's
