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“You moron! He’d be watching for it! Face it, he got us!”
“He got you, you mean. I was against this from the start.”
“Shut up, damn you! There are times I wish you were still alive, so that I could throttle you!”
“Hm! You’ve got yourself to blame for that one, don’t you? Now you’re stuck with me.”
“Don’t remind me, father! The boy was right about one thing—I do regret what I did to you! Who knew this would happen?”
“What’s done is done, my boy. And now we’re together forever. But it is a shame we couldn’t absorb him as well—that would have been so poetic. All in the family, after all.”
“Shut up, Lucian. Just shut up!”
About the Author
AARON ROSENBERG is an award-winning, bestselling novelist, children’s book author, and game designer. He's written original fiction (including the space-opera The Birth of the Dread Remora and its companion novella “Crossing Paths,” the upcoming science fiction comedy novel No Small Bills, and the new O.C.L.T. novella “Brought to Light” and the upcoming companion novel Incursion), tie-in novels (including the PsiPhi winner Collective Hindsight for Star Trek: SCE, the Daemon Gates trilogy for Warhammer, Tides of Darkness and the Scribe-nominated Beyond the Dark Portal for WarCraft, Hunt and Run for Stargate: Atlantis, and Substitution Method and Road Less Traveled for Eureka), young adult novels (including the Scribe-winning Bandslam: The Novel and books for iCarly and Ben10), children's books (including an original series, Pete and Penny's Pizza Puzzles, and work for PowerPuff Girls and Transformers Animated), roleplaying games (including original games like Asylum and Spookshow, the Origins Award-winning Gamemastering Secrets, and sections of The Supernatural Roleplaying Game, Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, and The Deryni Roleplaying Game), short stories, webcomics, essays, and educational books. He has ranged from mystery to speculative fiction to drama to comedy, always with the same intent—to tell a good story. You can visit him online at gryphonrose.com or follow him on Twitter @gryphonrose.