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She
said she’s…it’s like she’s possessed or something. She’s strapped
to her bed like an animal…” My voice choked and broke off. “I think
they’re going to try and put her away. But Perry isn’t crazy, we
know that.”
    There was a pause, and in that pause I felt
all my hopes fading. Then he said, “Tell me again exactly what her
sister said. And tell me why you haven’t seen her for so long.”
    I sighed, not wanting to get back into this
story. Every time I explained what happened between us, I took one
step closer to the darkness, the madness. I had to get past that,
past our mistakes.
    I took a deep breath and explained to him
how Perry lived with me for a week, how we explored the mental
institute, how we saw Abby, how she switched my medication, how we
made passionate love and promptly tore that love apart. I told him
of my descent, my downward spiral, and how I was working to get out
of it. I told him she was the light in my madness and I would do
absolutely anything to keep her shining.
    At the end of all that, instead of feeling
the guilt and shame that I normally felt, I felt alive and
determined. Maybe I was growing up. Maybe.
    “All right,” Bird said. “We need to help
her. I think I know who can. There’s a man in Lapwai, Idaho, who
has done this sort of thing before. His name is Roman. It’s just
there’s a very high risk that things can go wrong, do you
understand that, Dex? I can’t completely vouch for him, and if I
feel the situation can’t be helped, we can back out. But I feel
like he’s our only shot. I can feel the urgency in your voice and I
can feel it in my bones.”
    Risk or not, if he was our only shot, we had
to take it. “I understand. Let’s do it. Is he an exorcist?”
    “He’s a medicine man. Don’t worry, one of
the good guys, from the Nez Perce tribe. He was involved in a demon
possession case involving a little boy.”
    “And what happened? Did it work?”
    Silence. “The boy died,” Bird said.
    “Okay, so how about we look at option
B.”
    “There is no option B. This is the most I
can do for you at this hour. I haven’t even called him yet; he
might not even be open to it. But I feel that this is the option we
have to take. Like I said, if things get rough, we can back out.
But Perry isn’t a little boy. She’s got age and fight and spirit on
her side. If anyone can handle this, it is her.”
    He was right about that, even though the
risk was bigger than I originally thought.
    “Dex, we’ll do whatever we can,” he
continued reassuringly. “I’ll call you back after I hear from
him.”
    He hung up the phone and I sat back in the
chair, pulling my hair out at the sides. I was so damn close to
freaking out. I eyed my book of pills, wondering if taking a few of
the smuggled-in Valium would help me out. But I needed to think. I
needed to be alert and ready to act. I couldn’t medicate or drink
my way out of this one. Perry needed me more than I needed
relief.
    I sent a quick text to Ada, asking for an
update on the situation. Nothing had really changed, which was
great, but it looked like she’d be taken away by morning. She’d
been eavesdropping on her parent’s conversations and they were
adamant that Perry was having a mental breakdown and needed
professional help. She said they never believed her, no matter how
much Ada backed her up.
    I told her I’d be there in a few hours, that
I was just waiting on something. I did not want to mention the
exorcism, because even though Ada had brought up the idea of
possession, it didn’t mean she’d be open to the idea of a medicine
man doing some magic on her sister. People had different limits
when it came to what their brain could accept, I knew this all too
well.
    Finally, after I paced a mini-marathon
around the apartment, Fat Rabbit staring at me with concern, my
phone rang.
    “Bird!” I exclaimed as I answered, my chest
squeezing around my lungs and heart and everything else I
considered