I don’t like it. “STAND BACK OR I’LL KILL YOU ALL!” Decker screamed at the top of his lungs. XXX He knew it as soon as he had done it, but his mind had been divided. Somehow, Jessup’s aim had been true enough to shred the end of Decker’s staff, and it stopped Decker in his tracks. “You put that thing down, Decker Albright. “Everything that you saw the girl do, everything that happened, came from me. Tell me that you are with me.”
“I’m with you, Decker. His dreams told him that much, but his perception of how he was to be that hero had been different than what it was turning out to be. “But …” Cree’s brother began. Do you understand?”
At first it was as if their thoughts were wading through tree
