BoneMan's Daughters

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Half an hour had passed since his altercation with Celine and company.†

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"Another anomaly in Christ's death—"†

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3 uses

Logic, though useful, couldn't compel any more authority.†

4 uses

A perfect fit for her mother maybe, with his compelling, confident demeanor, but that didn't make him God's gift to all women.†

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The End And I will put enmity and hate and hostility between you, the serpent, and the woman; between your seed and hers.†

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He didn't yell anything specifically, just a roar of outrage directed at the BoneMan and whatever demonic entity had possessed him to visit such pain upon him.†

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You have to admit, your reactions have been a bit erratic.†

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He had no clue how to extricate them from the present crisis, but he could analyze the attack better than most chess players leaning over the board on a cool summer day.†

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Julie led him to one of several at the far end, where he would have at least a modicum of privacy.†

5 uses

You said partly motivated.†

3 uses

And his falling out with Celine and Bethany provided the motivation for this most recent assault.†

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This was his penitence.†

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He'd taken the furnished apartment, dutifully stocked up on food, mostly the non-perishable kind, and shut himself in.†

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One: They were taking enemy fire, a combination of shoulder-fired RPGs and machine-gun fire now slamming into the armor like pneumatic hammers.†

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Ryan didn't think a rebuttal would help matters.†

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And if one didn't apply just the right amount of pressure at the right angle when applying leverage, he was more likely to break the radius bone, which would complicate any subsequent fracture of the wrist bones because, as BoneMan put it, your leverage will be shot.†

4 uses

Most had physical wounds far worse than Ryan's superficial cuts, and he felt guilty for having taken up one of the forty-eight beds in this ward.†

4 uses

Stockholm syndrome, individuals' desperate attempts to become like their captors.†

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But it wasn't just fortune that had brought him to this place of such unprecedented opportunity.†