Never underestimate human stupidity.

Did you know Johnny thinks he's Pittacus resurrected?

In the beginning we were a group of nine. Three are gone, dead. There are six of us left. They are hunting us, and they won't stop until they've killed us all. I am Number Four. I know that I am next.

It's the little mistakes that lead to big mistakes.

So I'm guessing you're Seven and Ten; What can you do?" I say as I find our rifles in the sand and hand each of them a gun. "You can call me Marina," the girl with the brown hair says. "And I can breathe under water and see in the dark and heal the sick and wounded. And I have telekinesis." Call me Ella, I hear ten say in my head. Aside from my telepathy, I can change ages. "Awesome. I'm four, that nut job with the long black hair is nine and the beast is my chimaera, Bernie Kosar.

There were hugs. There were words said by each of them. I don't remember what they were. Nothing haunts me more.

Maybe the only good thing about death is that you never have to relive it. You never have to remember the pain.