Twenty-nine: Death

[mach_kick]

[Zell is slowly backing away from the Empty Child, reluctant to hit a child---even it if only looks like a child.]

Look, kid, I dunno what you want, but I doubt I can help you. Find somebody else. And please don't touch... [Too late! The empty child darts forward and grabs his hand. Zell's face pales, he staggers, and falls back against a wall,

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[rifled]

Whoa, you alright there?

[mach_kick]

[Shakily] No. I'm really, really not. GF's are gone, magic's gone---Irvine, I can't remember how to do anything.

[rifled]

You can't remember? Just like that?

[mach_kick]

Yeah. Just like that. There was this creepy kid, and after it touched me... all gone.