I'm electric with vertigo, even though I'm on the ground, vertigo like I felt once when I stood on the edge of a high cliff in Arizona and looked straight down.
When I touched that boy, I felt something. Something awful. Something I can__ describe.___e all felt it,_ Nick said.__ou may have felt it, but I caused it._ Then both his eyes seemed to go far away. __omething changed out there. I don__ know what it was, but something in the world changed because that kid didn__ deserve what I did to him__nd the powers that be know that I did it._ Nick watched as a tear fell from his Everlost eye and disappeared through the living world table.__hat if,_ said Nick, not even sure what he was going to say yet, __hat if you were that kid and you were told you could change the world, but you would have to sacrifice yourself to do it?__larence chuckled at the thought. __ believe that question was already asked a long time ago, and that creepy kid did not look anything like Jesus to me.___ut you do think that something changed. . . .___ don__ know whether it__ good or bad.___hat if it__ neither?_ suggested Nick. __hat if we get to make it one or the other?
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When I touched that boy, I felt something. Something awful. Something I can__ describe.___e all felt it,_ Nick said.__ou may have felt it, but I caused it._ Then both his eyes seemed to go far away. __omething changed out there. I don__ know what it was, but something in the world changed because that kid didn__ deserve what I did to him__nd the powers that be know that I did it._ Nick watched as a tear fell from his Everlost eye and disappeared through the living world table.__hat if,_ said Nick, not even sure what he was going to say yet, __hat if you were that kid and you were told you could change the world, but you would have to sacrifice yourself to do it?__larence chuckled at the thought. __ believe that question was already asked a long time ago, and that creepy kid did not look anything like Jesus to me.___ut you do think that something changed. . . .___ don__ know whether it__ good or bad.___hat if it__ neither?_ suggested Nick. __hat if we get to make it one or the other?
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