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A siren wailed in the distance I looked up and saw unifor rink One of the people pointed in our general direction They looked at us and I kneere running out of tio chasing after Mom anymore You’re a od only knoho or what else is looking for you now" I turned back to Shelton "Can you cut off the signal?"

"Maybe" He sighed "I’ll need soh"

I motioned my head at the cops as they stopped to talk to someone else "We don’t haveand we need to do it now"

Shelton looked at the cops and chuckled "You don’t do anything without raising a ruckus, do you?"

"If people would just leave us alone--"

"Believe ful look before pulling out his s I sidled up to hih a list of files before opening one called Disruptor 50 Couely fah a lot of the symbols on the screen didn’t exist on any keyboard I knew of "I hate to use this," he said "But it’s all I got on short notice"

"What’s going to happen?" I asked

"Just don’t try to use your cell phone until I tell you otherwise"

"Should I power it off?"

"Nah Just don’t make any calls" He stepped up to the circle where Dad stood "Once I break the circle, the tracking spell on the death onna need you to stay real still while I arm this disruption spell"

Dad nodded, turned, and dropped to one knee to give Shelton a better angle on his neck "Ready when you are"

I stayed at Shelton’s side, curious to see as going to happen He gave ?"

"I want to see what you’re doing"

"Fine Then you rub out the circle so I can run the spell"

I nodded and stepped up to the chalk outline "Ready?"

He nodded

"Go" I wiped part of the circle out with y whispered past my ears like static as it was freed fro goose bu hairs on end

Shelton aimed his phone’s infrared port at the tattoo and pressed the Execute syaze on the offending ink The phone beeped and flashed Processed in big red letters Aaway on his phone while he walked his dog Shelton’s phone flashed, Co yelled in surprise as a burst of static roared fro up all over the park as radios and phones burst into high-pitched wails and static The man’s phone smoked where the speaker was before the screen on the phone cracked and died

"What in the hell did you do?" I asked

"Told you I hated to use this spell It’s for eencies only, but this qualifies, wouldn’t you say? The spell distorts and overpowers all wavelengths for a period of ti to do with a ical one?"

"I don’t knohat frequency the tracker is operating on It could be using anything" He et out of here fast, though The spell uses a lot of power and won’t last long"

I glanced back at the cops frantically dancing about as they tore s radios off their belts and threw the?"

"I know just the place," Shelton said

Katie stared du, hissing s fro yapped at hisnoise, then yelped and ran in circles until his leash wrapped so tightly around his owner’s legs, the guy toppled over I tapped Katie on the shoulder to get her attention

"We’reout"

She nodded and followed behind me wordlessly

Elyssa fell into stride next to "

"Blood?"

She nodded

"I need so fro my supernatural abilities howled for relief My throat felt parched and ain I’d been too hyped orry to think about it until now

I glanced at Elyssa "Hoill you, uh…you know?"

"My parents have packs I know of a few other places I can get them, but…" She trailed off

"But what?"

"I don’t want to leave you You’ll probably get killed without hed "You’re such an optimist" I looked at Shelton’s back as he led us out of the park and into an alleyway across the street "Can we trust him?"