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"You hid it well," Mac said dryly "So the elves have us captive, huh? I guessso eren’t supposed to"

"That’s e think I was hoping you saw more than we did"

"Just a portal Who else is here?"

"We’ve seen a few people we know fro," I put in "There had been a lot of reports of ine they’re here, too"

"And you sayup a vivid memory from the real world seems to work," Owen said "For us, it was an accident that we si that reminded us of each other" He turned pink and left out exactly what that so was "My story from when I was a kid worked for you, so I hope that’s all it takes for us to wake up everyone else You’ll have to bring your partner out of it, since you know him best"

"But be careful," I added "There are people we thinkus If they notice we’ve re"

"If you’re worried about that, then you’d better act natural now," Mac said "There’s a guy across the park who’s watching us"

I was facing away from our possible watcher, and ht of being observed It took all my willpower not to turn around to see who it was I was afraid that even using the compact mirror trick to see behind ray?" I asked

"Yeah You’ve seen hiht, I did so that I shouldn’t have been able to do if the spell orking--probably because I’to convince the spell is still okay"

"What do you think they’d do if they knew you’d broken the spell?" Mac asked

"Probably put us back under it," Owen said with a shrug as he h about chess to know if it was a realthe pretense