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"Are you ok, are you ok?"

"Leave him, Corinna, leave him."

"Can't you see he is still alive?"

"We have no time. Leave him!"

"No, we can't."

Brother and sister stared at each other in the eye. Carlo finally turned and strode off, without a further word.

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"Who are you, Outsider?"

"I don't know."

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"Grandpa Stoke, who wears black, with an emblem on the collar that looks- like this?" she drew a circle, a cross in it, and a dot on the cross on the sand beside the old man's foot.

"A Shadow, child."

"A shadow?"

He leaned close to her and whispered, "An elite soldier of the Government. Top secret. No one knows about them. No one who has seen them has stayed alive. There are lots of rumours…that they are mutants…that they are experts with poison…you haven't seen one of them, have you?"

"Of course not."

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"Who are you exactly?"

"I don't know."

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"Tomorrow, we will have to fight. They are coming. You will fight with us. You understand?"

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"You know who he is, don't you?"

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"Why, then?"

"We need a hostage. What more, a hostage who can fight. Damn bloody well."

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"What are you fighting for?"

"Freedom."

"Freedom. What is freedom?"