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"Okay, well, here’s the thing," I said, trying to start with enough of the truth that I could tella story and not actually doing a really bad job of lying "You’ve got to stay here and out of sight until we let you know that the reporters have totally left the school"
"Yea," Stark said with a ss are kinda noticeable to reporters"
I hurried on before Kalona and Stark could bicker Again "I’ll tell Daone But then we don’t need you to help us box stuff up from downstairs See, we’ve already, um, talked about the Dallas issue, and we know he’s trouble So, ere hoping that you could figure out so that would keep hiet the red fledglings who don’t hate us settled in down there"
"Do you really expect to keep Dallas and his group fros have made the basement their home?"
"No, not forever," Stark said "But it would be nice if at least the first ti would try to eat theh already, Stark!" He wasoing to be able to go back to the depot soon, so if Dallas and his group could just be kinda distracted, and if our fledglings just didn’tin the basement, well, then ht Neferet doesn’t know about"
"It is alise to have a safe place to rest," Darius added
"So, like I said before, can you think of anything you could do to help us keep Dallas distracted and not nosing around while we get the basement cleared out and our kidsthat all three of us were pretty crappy liars
"There is the fledgling’s funeral," Kalona said "Though she used to be one of your group, everyone is aware that recently she changed her allegiance to Dallas Would it not be a kind thing for you to ask that Dallas tend to the building and even, perhaps, the lighting of her pyre? That should keep hiroup to assist him"
"That’s actually an awesome idea," I said "It’ll definitely keep Dallas and his buddies busy, and it’s honestly a nice thing for us to step aside and let hiood-bye It’ll show that we believed he really cared about her"
"If he’ll do it," Stark said "You heard hiood-bye in his oay, and thatto do with us"
"Which is the reason I should approach him instead of Zoey," Kalona said "I will tell him that Zoey has declined Thanatos’s invitation to conduct Erin’s funeral and so the job has been left to me"
"That’ll piss him off," Stark said
"That is er at ’s pyre" The iood pyre Such a sha a modern human funeral It’s sad, really"
"Kalona, it’s a problem hat you say reminds ht he looked like a little boy, as in the kind of little boy ould set fire to his faht and then say his sister’s Barbie made him do it
"Z, don’t overthink it Kalona will keep Dallas busy, and that’s all we’re worried about right now," Stark said
"Except for the reporters and the police and--"
"Stark is correct," Darius interrupted ht I’ll focus on the here and now I’ll tell Thanatos what’s up as soon as the reporters are gone, and also clue in Stevie Rae She can have the kids pack up their stuff and lay low until the basement’s ready for them Then they can corounds where Dallas and his friends should be busy building the funeral pyre"
"It will be done as you say, Priestess Will you beto the basement as well?"
"No," Stark answered forto stay in my old room with Stark," I continued, because I actually can speak for myself "Stevie Rae and Rephaihtfully "My son needs a place froo easily"
"Yeah, and we decided it’s not a good idea for all of us to stay in one rooether," Stark said "Especially when that one rooree," Kalona said, standing His hand resting on the desk drewweird about the wood I kept looking and realized what I was seeing
"Is that a handprint?"
"Is it?" Kalona replied to ht not be the only bad liar in the roo--Thanatos had ot some shots of our cafeteria--and then she’d had Damien explain (on camera) his class schedule as the Fox News team was quickly and politely herded off campus It’d all happened in less than thirtynews as well as the Internet I’d told her that it had been genius to have Daht her up on our Plan<ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins>