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"Go on," I said

"A Teround and sturie"

"Tellthe one I’d freed fro the leyworm to power an arch and all sorts of other crazy equipht he was food and sed hi "And then threw him back up"

"How the hell did he survive the teeth in that thing?" I asked, thinking of the jagged shard-like teeth I’d seen in the full-grown creatures The term "woriant beasts Technically, they were dragons of soale arrievous," she said "But while he was inside, he was exposed to raw aether"

"Raw aether?" I said "Um, isn’t it all raw until we use it?"

She shook her head "The aether carried by ley lines ht make your hair stand on end, but it certainly won’t haret sick if you draw in too much Leyworms, on the other hand, are named so because they have a peculiar relationship with ley lines"

"They eat the aether," Bella said

Meghan shrugged "I don’t think they eat it, exactly We know the creatures eat flesh and even stone"

"All part of a well-balanced diet," Shelton said

"My point is," Meghan said, giving him a flat look, "the quality of the aether inside a leyworic It soaked into the Te akin to radiation poisoning"

"Were you able to treat him?" I asked

She nodded "The solution was sie vanished, replaced by the ie of an intricate rune carved into stone

"A drain ward," Bella said, clapping her hands together "How si the man’s precise issue took tile, I decided a drain ward ic froain "Due to the sheer volume of aether, however, I had to anchor the ward in a ley line, or the siphoned energy would siht," Bella said "I ahan raised an eyebrow "You planned to use one for the children?"

"Not exactly," I said "We were planning to trap Ivy with it"

"Ah" The healer touched her chin with a hand, as if in thought "Adam and I will come to the university It sounds like you need all the help you can get, Justin"

"Would you, really?" I asked,

"Of course"

"Justin, I believe I havediscovery," Cinder said

"That you’re a robot?" Shelton said with a snort

The golehuh with the concept to know if your attempt was funny or not" He looked at h "No, but you are"

"Tis a sad world when a ruddy gole

Shelton blew out a breath "Whatever"

"What is this startling discovery?" I asked Cinder

The goleht crisscrossed each other in a patchwork of colors until a three-die portion of the table "While I was cataloging soave ed"

"Yeah, that’s the way e, I was able to read the lips of those speaking, so long as I had a clear view," Cinder said "I believe this video was not meant for public consumption" He tapped the air, and the video flickered on, showing a group of men in a very familiar room as they carried on an animated conversation

"Isn’t that this roo on the walls

"Well, at least we’re doing soht," Shelton said

I shushed the?" I asked Cinder

He paused the playback, pressed his hands together in the center, and spread his hands The three-di to reveal a panora to watch since thedirectly at me instead of each other

"I will speak for each person in turn," the golem said, and resumed playback

"She will find it otherwise," Cinder said in tih I noticed Moore’s lips didn’t quite synch with Cinder’s, like the bad dubbing of a kung fu movie

Alexander Tiberius shook his head "No, there’s a way to hide it Tell hi inal Arcane Council

Sydow glanced to the left, presuh the flattened perspective made it hard to tell "We hide it in between Neither here, nor there"