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A onna put you in a cab, since I don’t think you’re up for a ht now"

"Nope, I’ as I reic carpets

"Then I’ll meet you back at the office, and we’ll talk to the boss, okay?"

"Okay," I said meekly

A cab pulled up a moment later, and it was only after I was safely ensconced in the back seat that I realized just how exhausted I was I must have dozed off because it seemed like only seconds before a blast of chilly air woke me I opened my eyes to see that the cab had stopped in front of MSI headquarters, and Merlin was holding the cab door open for me He offered his hand to helpstruck rasp around the waist I started to squirrander, so this reaction told , she releasedit clear that this had never happened "It’s about tiht rasp in her voice revealing her e off like that?"

I didn’t get a chance to reply before soood to see you We’ve been worried," Rod’s voice said into my ear He pulled away and frowned "But what about Owen?"

"We should let Miss Chandler sit down before we interrogate her," Merlin said He tuckedand up to his office Once ere there, he got me settled into a chair and handed me a hot cup of tea Granny and Rod pulled up chairs nearby, like they were afraid to let ood to see you safe, Miss Chandler," Merlin said, his voice gruff with a surprising a with the others I know you need to rest after your ordeal, but I’ravity of the situation"

I sed the sip of tea I’d just taken and said, "I totally get it That’s why I’et help" I drank the rest of the tea to fortify myself before I launched into the story, far more coherently than I’d told it to Sa instead on e’d seen before ere captured, e’d learned after we broke the spell, and what I’d discovered upon returning to the warehouse "And I’ve only been gone a week?" I concluded "It’s been a really, really busy week"

"The enchantment likely altered your sense of time, and time does move differently in other realms," Merlin said with a wryly amused smile

"Does that mean I’m a month or so older than I should be?"

Granny snorted "You’re too young to worry about that"

Merlin’s expression grew more serious "And noe must stop Sylvester’s arettin’ the rest of our people hoh now that I thought about it, he would have arrived far ahead of the cab I must have been really out of it before that tea

"From what I saw in that warehouse, I’h to deal with," I said "They’re having a big party right now It seems they’ve discovered disco I don’t think they’re true believers in the cause I even wonder if they caht here the ere sent into that other world and don’t know the real reason If they’ve been enchanted, they hed wearily "But if that’s the case, I don’t kno to break the spell on the about their real lives"

"How many of ’em were there, do you think?" Sam asked

"A few hundred"

"That would be enough to solidify Sylvester’s power and elih to take on the rest of the ical establishment," Rod said

"We could probably find a way to trap ’eested "Then Sylvester won’t be able to use ’eood dance music playlist," I said, half in jest, but inI was on to so I babbled on while I tried to make sense of it "Our etting into it Elves have a thing for ht of earlier dawned onthem There had to be so all theyou just know if you’ve never seen anyone do it before"