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When Owen still hadn’t commented even after we reached his office and closed the door behind us, I said, "That ell"

"As well as can be expected," he said with a sole?"

"You don’t seem happy"

"We’re prisoners with no obvious ical authorities know thatthem The best-case scenario isn’t exactly rosy"

To distract him from his badto assume what you said to Mac was true But did you really have to have a dog to protect you on the way to and fro wasn’t to protect htly, a hint that ot to me, I panicked and lashed out with my powers I had very little control over them then and didn’t even do it consciously There was no serious har that didn’t wear off after a while--but the bullies were in danger until I learned to useat htened, and everyone would be safe"

"Did it work?"

"After a few dog bites The bullies were kind of slow to learn"

I hated to bring up business again after relaxing him, but we needed a plan "What next?"

He frowned, thinking, for a moment, then said, "Act as nor to anyone else we know is a prisoner for the rest of the day"

"Do you kno hard it is to act nor nor about this situation is nor squeeze "Of course it isn’t Maybe a better way to phrase it is ‘unchanged’ What would be normal in this scenario?"

"Well, we’ve just fallen in love and found each other, and we’re in romantic comedy world" I tried to remember every sappy movie I’d ever watched with Nita "I think we’re due for alike we’re in a perfu like you’re oblivious to the rest of the world, or else seeing the world in a neay now that you’re in love Doing spontaneous things like buying flowers or getting a streetwarined in thosestuck in this scenario to begin with "Talking, laughing, splashing each other in fountains, pausing to kiss in picturesque places"

"That would be the perfect cover for exploring the dimensions of our prison Good idea, Katie You h"

"Oh, come on, you can’t be that hopeless," I teased He sure kne to burst a girl’s romantic bubble

"I’ nor of normal, since we haven’t hired soet up there Florence is really grillingfor them"

"Then this is your chance to convince her But before you go …" He slid a notepad and pen across his desk "Write down a h to jolt you out of the spell, just in case"

I scribbled a few lines about growing up in Texas, since that was so that hadn’t come up in this scenario at all, and put it in my skirt pocket "See you after work," I said as I left the office

The gray-suited elf was in the store, lurking a on him as I passed him on my way to the stairs, then forced myself not to turn around when I heard footsteps behind ," I said to Florence when I reached the café "We’ve got to hire sole this and the assistantiving you," she said

"We just went to lunch and then had around

"A , hmmm," she said with a smile "About what?"