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вЂњIf he doesnвЂ™t stop hurting you, I swear IвЂ™ll do it. вЂњOne day,вЂќ she says, chasing after me, her eyes bright with tears. вЂњElla, donвЂ™t be silly,вЂќ I say, and walk away. вЂњIвЂ™m going to kill him,вЂќ she says, her small hands forming fists. I look to up to see Ian swearing at me, telling me to get moving while we still have a chance, and I try to push back, try to tell him that we lost Juliette-that I havenвЂ™t seen Warner-and he doesnвЂ™t hear me, he just forces me forward, offstage, and when the murmur of the crowd grows into a roar, I know I have no choice. Instead, they begin to stand, confused, and as soon as they start shuffling around, someone shoves me, hard. Their shirts are torn and their faces are scratched, but no one appears to be dead.

I blink and spin around, convinced IвЂ™m losing my mind, but when I scan the room I see the audience members begin to stir. One second sheвЂ™s in my arms, and the next, IвЂ™m grasping at air. My vision blackens, clears, and then darkens only at the edges in a dizzying moment that lasts hardly a second. What happens next knocks the wind from my lungs. I nod at Castle and the others to go, to move on without me, but when I glance around, looking for Warner, I realize I canвЂ™t find him anywhere. Her limp body is heavier than I expect, and she makes a small, wheezing sound thatвЂ™s almost like a sob. вЂњWe have to go-now-вЂќДЄnd when she still doesnвЂ™t move, I figure I have no choice but to move her myself. вЂњPrincess, please,вЂќ I say, shaking her a little. вЂњI know everything is crazy right now, but I need you to snap out of this, J. I try to warm some sense into her, begging her now to return to herself, to hurry back to her mind, to the present moment. It took a minute to coax her back out again. She looked like sheвЂ™d disappeared into herself somewhere-like sheвЂ™d found a small room in her brain and had locked herself inside. She was so terrified-so surprised-by what sheвЂ™d done that she could hardly speak. When I reach her I pull her into my arms, and her cold, unresponsive body reminds me of the time I found her standing over Anderson, a gun aimed at his chest. I hear WinstonвЂ™s soft, insistent whimpers and BrendanвЂ™s steady, reassuring response that the wound isnвЂ™t as bad as it looks, that heвЂ™s going to be okay, that heвЂ™s been through worse than this and survived it-ДЄnd I know my priority right now needs to be Juliette. I shove my way through the quiet, stunned, still-breathing bodies of my friends. Juliette just murdered six hundred people at once. But when I see the blood, thick and heavy, seeping through clothes and upholstery, dripping down frozen hands, I know weвЂ™ll never recover from this. It seems staged-like a bad joke, like a bad theater production.

It seems fake, for a second, all the limp bodies in seats with their chests butterflied open. I donвЂ™t actually believe it until I see the blood. The shudders ripple with renewed fervor across the floorboards, ripping through walls and seats and people. She already put the energy into the world and now. I look at Juliette and see her staring, slack-jawed, frozen at the sight of the devastation, and I realize she mustвЂ™ve stopped screaming a minute ago. The room loses half its light, bathing the cavernous space in a freakish glow, and itвЂ™s suddenly hard to see whatвЂ™s happening.

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And then, with one last vibration, three of the massive chandeliers rip free from the ceiling and shatter as they hit the floor.Д¬rystal flies everywhere. The chandeliers swing too fast and the lights flicker ominously.

People are frozen in place even as they shake, the room vibrating around them. Seismic currents are thundering up the walls, across the floors, chattering my teeth. I mean, I knew Juliette was strong-and I knew we hadnвЂ™t discovered the depth of her powers-but I never imagined sheвЂ™d be capable of this. But sheвЂ™s screaming, screaming at the top of her lungs, with an agony that seems almost an exaggeration, and itвЂ™s causing devastation I never knew possible.