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"Stop it Now!" Aphrodite stepped in front ofabout me behind my back!"

"And I’ll tell you why in a second First, you need to check yourself Get control of whatever crazy bullshit you’ve got going on and callanced over her shoulder at Shaylin "You go back to the base, Shaylin scrambled to her feet and ran past me

"So, what is she, your own little private Prophetess?"

Instead of answering o, and then she planted her hands on her hips and facedto talk shit tostone to hurt Shaylin? You have lost your damn mind"

"Stone?" I blinked at her, and then looked down at htly that it had pressed painfully into my palm As soon as I felt the pain the stone went cold I dropped it Feeling disoriented, I tried to keepon Aurox andshit I want to knohat the hell you think you’re doing having me followed around"

"I had a vision It was fro so with Aurox"

"When did you have this vision?"

"A couple of days ago That doesn’t matter What’s important is--"

"It doesn’t matter that you kept a vision about me from me for days?"

"No, what’s i your fucking te stone Which is exactly what just happened"

"No, that’s not what just happened I controlled the fucking stone I wanted to knock Shaylin on her butt, and it did exactly what I wanted"

Aphrodite shook her head back and forth "Are you even listening to yourself? Yeah, you should be pissed about what you overheard But Normal Zoey would never have wanted to hurt Shaylin And, by the way, Nor,’ either"

"Norht one of her best friends was talking behind her back and having her spied on!"

"I was going to tell you about the vision I was going to tell you about Shaylin I just needed to wait until the right tiht time wasn’t after you talked about me and spied on me Oh, to hell with this I’m out of here" I started to walk away froain

"Z, there’spissed at ood way We need to talk about this You have to let me tell you about the rest ofabout what I have to do Back off, Aphrodite" My chest was blazing when I pushed past her She stu a shocked noise I didn’t care I’d had it with her

I didn’t knohere I was going I just knew I had to go If I’d had the keys toI would’ve driven to Grandma’s house, but ht now and tell hi the day, I would’ve already run into Stark, thanks to the stupid bond we shared

I needed ti under et away fropecked to death by ducks!

I changed direction, walking away from the dorms, until I came to the wall that enclosed the school The wall Aurox patrolled Damn! I didn’t want to see him, either

That’s when I decided to hell with the cops and their house arrest crap I hadn’t killed the oing to go for a walk off ca for the easternmost part of the wall, and the hidden door I kneas not far fro She wasn’t usually a crier She was used to not feeling sorry for herself But this was different First there was the horrible thing that had happened with Dallas and the two fledglings She’d known about it Shaylin had seen their deaths in Thanatos’s colors And she’d shut her

Then Shaylin had done the exact opposite--she’d opened her mouth and blabbed Zoey’s personal business because she felt like she was doing the right thing Well, Shaylin had also felt like she was fitting in at the House of Night and doing a good job using her gift

But that couldn’t be true because she’d felt absolutely terrible after Dallas had been killed, and thein the world had just knocked her on her ass

She’d totally messed up Twice

Shaylin curled up in the dark corner of the basement where she’d s pulled up and her pillow on her lap She pressed her face into the soft pillowcase to h Most red fledglings slept during the day like they were dead

That’s what I should have been doing, too, she chided herself I should have been sleeping and not talking to Aphrodite about Zoey Now they’re ure out this Prophetess thing