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"It’s not a real fire," I said "Magic?"

"More than likely Come on" He released me from his arms and tookHe put his pal, closed his eyes for a second, then said, "Yep, it’s a ical fire Do you think it would raise too many questions if I killed the spell now?"

"Could you make it fade away, so the fire anyone, is it?"

"It shouldn’t be I think I even knohich spell they’re using If it’s what I think it is, countering it will be easy I can’t actually undo it, but there are plenty of spells to stop it"

"I don’t suppose they left a trail we could follow"

"I’h voice said I looked up and saw a s of a nearby fire escape ladder

"Hi, Saoyle Sam was MSI’s chief of security

"You didn’t see anything, did you?" Owen asked

"Nope, butout in a search pattern"

Owen nodded his approval "Good"

"We’re sure to catch ’e," Saht to find soot the situation under control"

"You heard what the gargoyle said," Owen said, holding his arm out to me I took it, and then we made our way down the street with the rest of the restaurant crowd that wasaway from the scene About a block away from the restaurant, I felt a wared and said, "We shouldn’t be walking around et hair" I couldn’t help but wonder what my hair looked like after it had been wet and then dried like that, but I felt much warmer