She looked back toward the rear of the...
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looked back toward the rear of the greenhouses,
toward the trash heaps
Clary came out and listened, too
"Do you hear it?"
"Yes," said Clary She peered toward the crying
noise Her strong hand
gripped Lina's shoulder for a moment"You'd better
go," she said"I'll take care of this
"But what is it?"
"Never mind
But Lina wanted to seeOnce Clary had walked
away, she ducked behind the toolshedFrom there she
watched
The noise came closerOut beyond the trash
heaps, a figure appearedIt was a man, running and
stumbling, his chloe paddington handbag arms floppingHe looked as if he was
about to fall over, as if he could hardly pick up his feetIn fact, as he came closer he did fallHe tripped over a
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hose and crumpled to the ground as if his bones had
dissolved
Clary stooped down and said something to him in
a voice too low for Lina to hear
The man was pantingWhen he turned over and
sat up, Lina saw that his face was scratched and his eyes
wide open in frightHis sobs had turned into hiccupsIt was Sadge Merrall, one of the
clerks in the Supply DepotHe was a quiet, white chanel purse long-faced
man who always looked worried
Clary helped him to his feetThe two of them
came slowly toward the greenhouse, and as they got
closer Lina could hear what the man was sayingHe
spoke very fast in a weak, trembly voice, hardly stopping
for breathwas sure I could do itI said to
myself, Just one step after another, that's all, one step
after anotherI knew it would be darkWho doesn't
know that? But I thought, Well, dark can't hurt youI'll
just keep going, I thought
He stumbled and sagged against Clary"Careful,"
Clary saidThey chanel cambon tote reached the door of the greenhouse,
and Clary struggled to open itWithout thinking, Lina
darted out from behind the toolshed and opened it for
herClary shot her a quick frown but said nothing
Sadge didn't stop talkingBut then the farther
I went the darker it was, and you can't just keep walking
into black dark, can you? It's like a wall in front of
youI kept turning around to look at the lights of the
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city, because that's all there was to see, and then I'd say
to myself, Don't look back, keep movingBut I kept
tripping and torebki louis vuitton falling The ground is rough out there,
I scraped my hands He held up one hand and stared
at the red scratches on it, which oozed drops of blood
They got him into Clary's office and sat him down
in her chair
"Be brave, I said to myselfI kept going and going,
but then all of a sudden I thought, Anything could be
out here! There could be a pit a thousand feet deep
right in front of mesomething that
bitesrats as big as garbage
bins And I had to get out of thereSo I turned
around and I ran
"Never mind," said Clary"You're all right white chloe bag n


