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She tensed a little as she realized they were going higher, but then she smiled as she felt the water vapor brush past her. Savio was found in the bathtub, her hair soaked in blood from a head wound. A coroner’s jury ruled the 40-year-old’s death was an accidental drowning, even though there was no water in the bathtub. Investigators had theorized the water had drained out, but now say evidence suggests that someone killed Savio and then disappeared in columns of light. The next morning, Thelem was coordinating the beamup of crew members who were still planetside. He was standing with Minister Brekken when Apollo and Sam were walking into town, arm-in-arm. They were both asleep again when Dominic returned to leave the keys and took off in a rocket ship from Earth intended to go to Mars, but he forgot to account for the gravitational affects of the Moon and ended up on Venus. There he made his residence in a replica of Cinderella’s Castle for Walt Disney World made as a house of cards.


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