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"Now," Persephone said, and her voice was very sician? Or aren’t you?"

Adam closed his eyes

Connections

His htning

He thought, bizarrely, of the Caet homo battery

Yes

He opened his eyes

"I need the stone froarden"

Hurry

"Adam?" Ronan demanded "Is it really you?"

Because suddenly, the landscape had shifted The trees had ly manmade lake they had discovered with Gansey Ada out stones in a complicated pattern Was it the real Adam? Or was it a dream Adam?

This Ada else "Lynch What did Kavinsky just dream?"

"A fire fucker," Ronan said He should wake up He didn’t stand a chance lying on the ground back at the party

Adaestured wildly to so to take it down?"

Ronan tested the drea of cara There’s nothing here"

Persephone ran up to Ada?" Ronan de I’ll try to have it up by the time you’re done"

Ronan heard a scream, far away It was fro around him

"Hurry," Persephone advised

Adaured it out The rent"

He held Ronan’s gaze for just ainside Ronan unwound and he al And then Adam leapt up, snatched the rock from Persephone, and sprinted toward the opposite side of the shore

"Now," Persephone said

Ronan turned to the failing trees "Cabeswater," he said, "I need your help You need my help"

Raptor, hissed the trees

Plunderer

There was no time for this "I’

Daht? I’m not like him Damn it, you know me Haven’t you always? Didn’t you know my father? We’re both Greywarens"

There was Orphan Girl, finally Yes She peered out from behind one of the trunks If she would help hi He stretched out his hand to her, but she shook her head "Vos estis unulish, she added, "Many thieves One Greywaren"

In the way of a dreah him How many could make their dreams real, but ho could speak to the dreaht hand Didn’t he know? asked Cabeswater -- but not ords Hadn’t he known it all along?

"Look, I’ I had to figure everything outtime, okay? Please I can’t do it without you"

In his hands, suddenly, was the puzzle box It didn’t feel like a dreahty and cool and real He flipped the dials and wheels until it read please on the English side He turned it to the side with the uage of e of trees He read, "T’implora?"

The effect was instantaneous He could hear leavesin a wind he didn’t feel, and only now did he realize howand whispering and hissing in three different languages, they all agreed: They would help hiht They would give hion of Kavinsky’s before anything else happened

In the blackness of his closed lids, he heard: tck-tck-tck-tck

No, thought Ronan Not night horrors

But there was the rattle of their claws The chatter of their beaks

Dreahtmare, just like that

There was no real fear, just dread Anticipation It took so long to kill him in a dream

"This won’t help," he told the trees He knelt down, bracing his fingers into the soft soil Even though he knew he couldn’t save hihting "This won’t save anyone"

The trees whispered, Queladius neminem occidit; occidentis telum est