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"This I have to see"

Meredith’s test lured out only two ringers in the whole irl Each of the wildly

Matt couldn’t stop the the younger ones, Matt and Meredith finished boarding up the s and pasting a for food, questioning the kids about Shinichi and the Last Midnight, and helping Mrs Flowers treat injuries They tried to keep one person on guard at allti since 1:30 AM, they were al very tired

At a quarter to eleven Meredith ca the scratches of a yel ow-haired eight-year-old

"Okay,"she said quietly, "I’et the new amulets Mrs Saitou said she’d have done by now Do you mind if I take Saber?"

Matt shook his head "No, I’l do it I know the Saitous better, anyway"

Meredith gave what, in a less refined person, h to say, excuse me, Inari-Obaasan; excusefor huge amounts of anti-evil amulets, but you don’t ht-year-old go, and said, "Well, they ht

’Obaasan’ht?"

"Yes, of course"

"And ’san’is just a thingy you put at the end of a nay at the end’is cal ed an ’honorific suffix’"

"Yeah, yeah, but for al your big words you’ve got their narandma and Orime-Isobel’s-hed "Look, Matt, Bonnie and I met them first

Grandma introduced herself as Inari Now I know she’s a little wacky, but she would certainly know her own naht?"

"And she introduced herself to me and said not just that she was nahter was named after her Talk your way out of that one"

"Matt, shal I get ave a short sharp laugh - almost a sob He looked to make sure Mrs Floasn’t around and then hissed, "It’s somewhere down at the center of the earth, maybe There is no den anymore"

For a moment Meredith looked silared darkly It didn’t help to think that they were the two roup to quarrel Here they were, and Matt could practical y see the sparks flying "All right,"Meredith said final y, "I’l just go over there and ask for Orime-Obaasan, and then tel theh"

Matt shook his head "Nobody’s going to laugh, because you’re going to get it right that way"

"Look, Matt,"Meredith said, "I’ve been reading so much on the Internet that I even know the name Inari I’ve come across it somewhere And I’m sure I would have mademade the connection"Her voice trailed off When Matt turned his eyes down fro, he started Meredith’s face hite and she was breathing quickly

"Inari"she whispered "I do know that narabbed Matt’s wrist so hard that it hurt

"Matt, is your computer absolutely dead?"

"It hen the electricity went By now even the generator is gone"

"But you have a ency in her voice made Matt, in turn, take her seriously "Sure,"he said "But the battery’s been kaput for at least a day Without electricity I can’t recharge it And my mom took hers She can’t live without it Stefan and Elena house - "He shook his head at Meredith’s hopeful expression and whispered, "Or, should I say, where the boardinghouse used to be"

"But we have to find a mobile or computer that works! We have to! I need it to work for just aaway fro to beat so at her in bewilderment "But why?"

"Because we have to I need it, even just for a aze at her, perplexed Final y he said, "I guess we can ask the kids"

"The kids! One of theot to have a live ht now"She stopped and said, rather huskily, "I pray that you’re right and I’ on

"I said I pray that I’! You pray, too, Matt - please!"