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Turns out he does run, Nick drawled. Given an incentive. And he wouldn't be so out of breath if he hadn't kept shrieking. That was not a shriek, Jamie said with dignity. It was a husky masculine cry of terror.

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Sarah Rees Brennan
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: September 21
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