Chapter 17-Lies

"But--but you're dead!" Brekk sputtered, staring at Koori, who was clearly still alive.

Koori smiled evilly. "Apparently I'm not."

"I saw your body," Ralya whispered, wondering how this could be happening. Koori was dead. But she was standing before them, living. It wasn't possible.

"That was my clone," Koori said.

"There was a moment of shocked silence as all this sunk in. Then: "You killed your clone?"

Koori merely shrugged, as if it were of no importance. "Desperate times call for desperate measures. You were getting too close."

"So we were right about the anigari?" Ralya realized.

"Shut up and walk," Koori said angrily, waving her blaster.

Taking that as a yes, they all walked.

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After they had been walking for about twenty minutes, Ralya spoke again. "They'll come looking for us, you know. They'll know we're missing. They'll worry."

"No they won't," said Koori. "They think you're dead. They've seen your bodies with their own eyes."

"But--but that's impossible! We're not dead!" Brekk insisted.

Koori grimaced. "Unfortunately not. Not yet, at any rate. No, you're not dead. The bodies were your clones."

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