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"An all-seeing eye," Elyssa said "They’re going to see everything"

The ASE returned to the sender a h for everyone to see, including us Clearly nestled in between the two leyworel babies in cribs One burst into tears Gray as puffed into existence for an instant before fading

A round of surprised noises emanated from the crowd Kassus let out an astounded curse

"This is not good," I said

"Why are they rounding up cherubs in the first place?" Elyssa asked "Obviously they didn’t know aboutthe relics," Cinder said "If they plan to reactivate the Grand Nexus, they probably wish to make them safe for new arrivals"

"Makes sense," Elyssa said

Kassushe wanted to build soer at the leyworms Three men hesitantly approached the beasts, staffs at the ready As they closed in, the leywor hisses that turned h they weren’t directed at me The men aimed their staffs at one of the creatures and fired solid beaon scales, apparently not even irritating the leviathan The dragon lowered its head, opening its razor-lined reithin

The men turned tail and ran

"Morons," Elyssa said

Kassus shouted at them, but his words failed to convince the men to resume their attacks They weren’t co All I needed was a drop of his blood He backed up a step and stu piece of rubble His hand went out to catch hi he would cut hiht hilared at the leyworers Motioned to one of the other men, and made him stand apart from the others A woman stepped forward, and waved her staff at the ht distortion re

I stared hard at the slight shiure on sniffed the air, its parietal eyes blinking, and then lowered its head As the shiiant bellowed a roar that seemed to shake the cavern

I saw the shimmer in the air beat a hasty retreat

"Hah," Elyssa said in a lohisper "I like these dragons They’re sure so out," I said "We need to move the babies, pronto"

"I don’t know if the leyworms will allow it," Cinder said "They’ve been rather reluctant on that point"

"We need to make them see it’s for the best"

"Where in the world would we keep them?" Elyssa said "They aren’t like normal babies"

"The mansion," I said "Plenty of space"

"They’ll need to feed," Elyssa said "The leyworms provide essence for them"

I face-palmed as an obvious resource occurred to me "We need to ask my mom how to care for the babies Maybe her htliss’s"

"Perhaps we could convince the leyworms to let us move the babies to another relic," Cinder said "One with powerful ley lines, but no Alabaster Arch"

"Where are Slitheren and his pals?" I said, dropping into a sitting position with mite "They could chase these bozos off so we could have a little discussion with Gigantor and Lulu"

"Let uess, the purple one is Lulu?" Elyssa asked

I returned a wan sone with Violet"

"I really don’t knohere you coive ani position

"I believe I have a solution," Cinder said, still peering at Kassus and his ht Nothing like spending tiirl while the man anted to kill me stood only a few hundred yards away "Okay, let’s hear it"

"The dungeons beneath Arcane University are large enough to accommodate the leyworh to sustain feeding"

Elyssa peered around our hiding spot at the ginoreons are nearly tall enough," she said "The dragons arewithoccurred to me "You kno tall and wide the Obsidian Arches are?" I said "You could fit a jus," Elyssa said