but it's not safe and I can feel him slipping away, so I just get out …

Suzanne Collins
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but it's not safe and I can feel him slipping away, so I just get out one more sentence. Stay with me. As the tendrils of sleep syrup pull me down, I hear him whisper a word back but I don't catch it. ✨ Suzanne Collins (2010). Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games), p.159, Scholastic Inc.
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