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"Justin, you okay?" I heard soh far away down a tunnel

I openedwhich looked re toaround," said a fa back at me "Justin, can you hear me?"

"Are you okay, baby?" Elyssa appeared from my other side

I blinked "What happened?" I looked around and saas in h the doorway

I nodded I felt groggy, but otherwise not too bad

"I believe he has overtaxed himself in the past few days," Vallaena said "Yesterday’s activities and the strain of the va curse have been too much"

"Not to mention today’s," I muttered

Vallaena’s eyes "

Meghan gave me a worried look, and added "The Grand Melee starts in two hours"

The end is nigh! I leapt to my feet, and alo, now!"

Shelton gripped ht "Hold on, cowboy What ?"

"He’s right," Elyssa said "You’ve done too h erupted from my throat "It doesn’t et this done" I pounded a fist into my palm to punctuate the last three words I turned to Vallaena "You ready?"

Her chin lifted, and she looked at me like a proud ht a hed "You’re crazy, but I love you" She peckednoise, and saw the puppy hellhound atup and down I picked hi happens to han’s lip curled in disgust "I was petting a baby hellhound? But he’s so cute!"

"I will," Vallaena said

I sighed "I’ across campus"

"Oh, yeah," Shelton said with a sirlfriend did"

I grabbed a protein bar froave Elyssa a concerned look "What did you do?"

She s this place with the arch"

"A what?"

"The doorway behind the arch," Shelton said "It leads to here We cut through the iron grate in the cellar and followed it down to that iron door Didn’t take ave Elyssa a s"

"I know," she said with a smirk

My mind unscrambled as the protein bar kicked in, and I for the rune, we also need to stop the giant goleaze found Michael standing at the edge of the roo at hio to the Grand Melee? Maybe evac them to an undisclosed location?"

He nodded "I’ll take care of it"

I turned to Zagg You’re well known here "I need you to find out which goleh to the operators and convince them to double-check"

"I’m on it," the professor said

I looked at Shelton and Adarinned "Once Elyssa found the alternate route, ent down and ran our shield-hole generator It’s running through thousands of ic cipher combinations We think this barrier is sin, othere’d have no chance of opening a hole"

"How long will it take?" I asked