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"You’re right I used to be Not any the truth?" Shaunee asked

"I believe her" Shaylin spoke with no hesitation "I’ve watched her colors change"

I looked to Aphrodite "You’re still sure about her?"

"Who her? Shaylin or Nicole?"

"Both," I said

Aphrodite’s gaze flicked over Shaylin before coed, then I say believe her"

"She used to be Dallas’s girlfriend, and Dallas just tried to kill Stevie Rae andit like it is"

I heard a few of the kids reement with her Nicole’s face had paled, but she’d lifted her chin and faced Shaunee "Erin was Dallas’s girlfriend and you still cared enough about her to stand by her pyre until after dawn"

"I knew Erin a long time," Shaunee said "I’ve known you for, like, two seconds"

"Was Erin perfect for that long time you knew her?" Nicole asked

Shaunee looked away fro "No No, she wasn’t"

"I wasn’t perfect infor a second chance"

I’d heard enough My Prophetesses and h for h for the rest of you, too If we held the past against everyone, then Kalona wouldn’t be our High Priestess’s Warrior, and Stark wouldn’t be my Warrior Hell, Stevie Rae wouldn’t even be my BFF"

"I would have been shunned and cast out of the House of Night along with Neferet," Aurox said I hadn’t noticed hi behind us, just inside the basereerande about this Tooeach other"

Shaunee looked at Nicole briefly, and then her gaze h Priestess I trust you"

"Thank you," I said I looked around the group "Anyone have anything else to say?"

"Is Stevie Rae gonna be okay?" Kramisha asked

"Completely," I said

"Did Rephaim really save her when he was a bird?" Shaylin asked

I smiled at Shaunee "Tell ’em the story, but be fast Remember that Thanatos said she wants today to be a make-up day and everyone has to be in their first-hour class when the bell rings at eight"

There were a bunch of groans at that news, but they were cut off by Shaunee’s retelling of what had happened earlier I took the opportunity to exit to Darius, as standing at the upper entrance to the basement Aphrodite, of course, calanced quickly at hih His eyes were bloodshot and puffy and his perfect skin looked kinda chalky and daovers suck, huh?" I couldn’t stop h I didn’t wait around to hear if he answered me Aphrodite snickered all the way up the stairway

"Kalona and Stark are searching for Dallas?" Darius asked as we joined his, too"

"It’s going to be real interesting to see what she does with all of thee to find Dallas He’s gotta seriously not want to be found"

"The immortal will find him, have no doubt of that," Darius said

"Did anyone do a roll call and see if any of his friends took off with hilings were safe Dallas is definitely gone, but I don’t believe anyone left with him," Darius said

"I hope whatever Thanatos does hed "I don’t kno you’d even begin to lock up a kid who can control electricity It’s depressing to start thinking about how many ways he could escape"