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"Where’s Sam?" Evie asked

"He went to call a friend about a motorcar"

"I’ll bet he did," Evie scoffed

"I could take first shift, if you like," Jericho offered

"No, I will," Evie said She was stilland wasn’t about to let him take the martyr points

Evie wandered the roo about the ht’s party She probably shouldn’t have been so public about her object-reading What if they expected her to do that every tiht of her as strange or frightening, soht be able to divine the secrets they’d worked hard to hide? She made a vow that she’d be more careful in the future

But she was curious about the Diviners Will had ht out Liberty Anne Rathbone’s book and curled up by the woodstove in the collections room to read it

The Prophecies of Liberty Anne Rathbone, as recorded by her brother and faithful servant, Cornelius T Rathbone

To-day, sweet Liberty Anne lay in that same state of which she has been bewitched since her walk into the woods A’times, she speaks in soft awe at the wonders she beholds; other tis to come It is as if she sees into that vast, heavenly abyss of which only the angels and the all-seeing eye of Providence are visitors I have recorded her words forthwith

"We are the Diviners We have been and ill be It is a power that coy of the land and its people, a real as is needed We see the dead We speak to restless spirits We walk in drea The future unfolds for us like the navigator’sseas we have yet to travel"

Evie turned the pages excitedly

"There can be no security at the cost of liberty The heart of the union will not abide… The skies alight with strange fire The eternal door is opened The ain with the store was a small sketch of an eye surrounded by the rays of the sun, with a lightning bolt beneath it

"The Diviners must stand, or all shall fall"

Evie closed the book and put it aside Cornelius Rathbone had obviously loved his sister Did he dreaone, as Evie dreaht the comfort of her half-dollar pendant She was exhausted froh the s, and combined with the warmth from the woodstove turned the room stuffy Evie rested her head on her arms and fell asleep

She dreamed of the city The canyonlike streets were ee, but in the distance, a mass of dark clouds threatened She called out, but there was no one Newspapers swept across the street and skittered up the sides of the quiet buildings She becaht Shadow people She’d turn her head just in ti, "She’s one She’s one of the can stop us"

Evie turned a corner and was surprised to see Henry also walking the streets, as if looking for someone His eyes widened when he saw her "Evie, what are you doing here? Don’t reone But so toward her, and Evie found she couldn’t ure careen eyes There was soirl; Evie could swear they’d met before Then it cairl carried a strange dagger in one hand She looked angry, alarmed, as she shouted, "You shouldn’t be here! Wake up!"

"Evie, wake up!" Sa her shoulder Evie blinked awake in the lass s of the collections roo"

"I was?" Evie said, stretching Her heart still beat fast

"Must’ve been a real lulu of a dreaht with all this murder talk Tell your pal Sam all about it I’ll keep you safe" Sam moved into the chair beside her He brushed a curl out of her eyes gently, but his smile had that same wolfish quality she’d first seen in Penn Station