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teeth. It was still too strong to fight.
                “Jack, that creature…” I want to avoid this, but I know I can’t. We need to talk about it, and we need to do it now. “It burned the doors. It burned whoever that was back there. It has the same powers I do. What does that mean, Jack? Where did it come from?”
                Jack shakes his head. “I don’t know, Celes.”
                “Is it connected to me somehow? Am I the same kind of thing it is?” I can feel those questions gnawing away at me. Because if it’s something so terrifying and mindlessly evil, what does that make me?
                “You’re nothing like that thing,” Jack says.
                “I have the same powers.”
                “You’re nothing like it,” Jack repeats, reaching out for me. “You’re not a monster, and you never will be.”
                Trust Jack to guess what’s scaring me. How can he know though? How can he know that one day I won’t end up like that thing? What if I’m just the first stage on whatever path leads to it?
                “You have to trust me, Celes,” Jack says. “I don’t know what that thing is, but I know you aren’t it. You care too much about the world and the people in it. All that cared about was killing.”
                I nod, knowing that he’s right, even though there are still so many doubts nagging at me. “There’s so much we don’t know,” I say. “Where did that creature come from, Jack? Does it have something to do with Hammond?”
                “Your guess is as good as mine,” Jack says. “It could be up to Hammond. It could be from the future. It could even be something from the past. We don’t have enough information to make a guess, except that it seems to have a violent streak.”
                I think about all the ash in the town. Some of it has to be from the fire that was raining from the sky when we went into the shelter, but how much of it is from that creature, or others like it? How many people has it killed?
                “There might be others like it,” I say. “There might be dozens of them. Hundreds. There might be whole armies of them.”
                “Or there might just be a few,” Jack says.
                I nod. I don’t like being like this. Not knowing what’s going on. “What we need is more information.”
                “If we can get it,” Jack agrees. “But it isn’t the main priority. The priority is to get to Location Thirteen. If we’re lucky, the Faders there will know more about what has happened in the past couple of days.”
                “As well as how to stop those things,” I say.
                Jack nods. “Let’s hope so. If there are more of them, then they could potentially wipe out every human out there.”
                “But we know it doesn’t work out like that, don’t we?” I say.
                Jack shakes his head. “You know we can’t take that for granted. We came back to change things, so we have to believe that things can change. If they can, then they can change both ways.”
              New="T      Which means they can get worse as well as better. I’ve thought about it before. I’ve thought about it a lot now. We came into the past to try to make things better, but what if we make things worse? What if we’ve come here to this time to try to save the future, but we actually end up destroying it?
                No, we aren’t going to allow that to happen. Whatever it takes, we’re going to stop the Fever. We’re going to save people. We’re going to stop creatures like the one we’ve just run from. First, of course, we need to find a way to do that, but we will. I hope we will at least.
                That means getting to Location Thirteen. Jack