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@@@@@"Wireman, are you there?" After a moment long enough to first seed four kinds of fear and then start them growing, he answered: "Yeah, muchacho "All right?" 1077 "One of em scratched me and it ought to be disinfected, but otherwise, yeahBasically I think we both are "Jack, can you come down here? I need a hand And then, sitting there crooked among the bones with the water-filled shell of the flashlight held up like the Statue of Liberty's torch, I began to laugh Some things are just so true you have to xii My eyes had adjusted enough for me to make out a dark shape seeming to float down the side of the cistern - Jack, descending the ladderThe sleeve of the flashlight was thrumming in my hand - weak, but definitely thrummingI pictured a woman drowning in a narrow steel tank and pushed the image awayIt was too much like what had happened to Ilse, and the monster I had imprisoned was nothing like Ilse "There's a rung missing," I said"If you don't want to die down here, you want to be careful as hell 1078 "I can't die tonight," he said in a thin and shaking voice I never would have identified as his "I have a date tomorrow "Thank y-" He missed the rungFor a moment I was sure he was going to come down on top of me, on top of the upheld flashlightThe water would spill out, she would spill out, and it all would have been for nothing "What's happening?" Wireman shouted from above us "What the fuck's happening?" Jack settled back against the wall, one hand gripping a lucky chunk of coral that he happened to find at the last crucial secondI could see one of his legs plunged down like a piston to the next intact rung, and there was a healthy ripping sound"Man oh man oh fucking man "What's happening?" Wireman nearly roared "Jack Cantori ripped out the seat of his pants," I said"Now shut up a minuteJack, you're almost there