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rebuffing me and rebuffing me for weeks until he finally agreed to rent it while my mom was visiting my aunt in California. After it was over, I finally understood the reason why my father didn’t want me to watch it. I barely slept for weeks after that, because every time I closed my eyes, there was Leather face swinging his saw, dancing his mad dance on a sweltering Texas morning.
     
     
    But this wasn’t a movie, this was for real, and Mr. Devlin was a real life monster.
     
    On knocked on Mr. Devlin’s office door just in case he was inside. When he didn’t answer, I turned the knob, praying that it wasn’t locked. But it turned easily, and I slipped inside. I scanned the room quickly with my eyes, the office was very spartan and only contained a very old computer, a desk and a small side table with a black leather valise resting on it. The weapon, if it was here, had to be inside of it. I walked over to the bag and snapped it open. Inside was a shimmering orb. I hesitantly picked it up. It fit comfortably in my hands, but it was so cold and seemed to have a tiny hurricane or tornado raging inside of it, and seemed to pulse with my quickening heartbeat.
     
    “Tell me, meat. What exactly are you doing with that?”
     
    I turned and there stood the hulking shape of Mr. Devlin. His entire body filled the room and he flickered between his human form and his true one.
     
    “You will give that to me now.”
     
    My mind went blank, my body went stiff, and I levitated over to him. He took the orb from my hands and stared at me with his dead eyes.
     
    “It’s quite extraordinary, isn’t it?” His voice filled my mind, and it felt like it was breaking apart, shipping away one little piece at a time. “Would you like to see how it works?”
     
    The orb rose in the air and began to spin like a top, a lifeless silver began to pour from it, cause every hair on my body to stand up.
     
     
    Suddenly the door to Mr.Devlin’s office crashed open, and there was Jarred in his true form.
     
    “Ah, I thought I smelled one of your kind.”
     
    Samuel charged Mr. Devlin, but then he opened his mouth, and the loudest noise I’ve ever heard exploded from him in a ball of silver fire. Samuel’s body was enveloped in it and the wall behind him exploded in a shower of fire and brick. But yet, Jarred kept moving forward, edging closer to the UnMaker. Abruptly the sound came to a stop and Devlin grabbed me by the throat.
     
    “Stop where you are, or I’ll destroy the meat.”
     
    “No!” Samuel shouted. “No, let her go, and you can destroy me. Just let her live.”
     
    The UnMaker laughed and flung me against the wall with a hard crash and I crumpled in a heap, nearly unconscious.
     
    “What a fair bargain. Your kind has always had too much of a weakness for life. If only you knew the true pleasures of the darkness.”
     
    Samuel levitated into the massive hands of the UnMaker, and it wrapped its claws around his throat and opened his mouth, preparing to unleash another unearthly scream of black fire. But just as his breath began to smolder, a long ragged branch exploded out of the back of the UnMaker’s head, it’s arms falling to its sides.
     
    “And your kind, have never understood the true power of life.”
     
    The UnMaker’s body hit the floor with a dull thud, and then I felt Jarred’s strong arms encircle me and carry me away. My mind finally had enough, and I passed out.
     
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    We lived for a week in the desert outside of Phoenix. We were there for so long because defusing the UnMaker’s weapon was a complicated process, and he didn’t want it anywhere near other human beings in case he made a mistake. He made a small cave in the Earth, bending the soil and rock to his will. I could hear him in my mind talking to the soil, telling it that