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But had it been Amanda’s phone, ringing in a locker?
Was this her, now?
Again, the image came to him of a Venus flytrap, along with the realization he’d been standing and staring at his ringing phone, not moving, doing nothing. He remembered another bit from the Animal Planet show, about Venus flytraps stunning their prey with nerve toxins, paralyzing them.
Like he was paralyzed, now.
this place doesn’t want me to leave
He thumbed reject call. Turned his phone off and stuck it into his pocket, oddly enough, keeping the Nokia out, clenched in his other hand. He descended the sloping floor into the auditorium, to stand before the first wall of mattresses.
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