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Chapter 53

The second Teague and Lily turned away, I rushed Jack

He wrestled withat ood hand, ready to let my ability open up wide He anticipated my plans

And opened up a world of pain instead

Every ocean in the world roared in my ears as he pushed rief, curled up on the floor My face when she told me what happened Dad, his fear theme Dad’s memories was Jack’s first mistake

Those five years were so fresh I could see the back the e the foaht memories, all of theh Jack’s brain space

Now I knehat to look for, and findingaway froer My dad,on a beach in Bali My birth, , with peas ser in fast forward, with ether, watching me swim Then ones I didn’t understand … a white house on a hill … swaue?

I slowed down the flow to try to exah equilibrius I didn’t want to see E in each other, Dad cla his hand on Michael’s shoulder The word son

The pain was so quick and sharp that I almost faltered Then somehow, I kneas a lie

I could hear Lily froave Teague the infor my thumb into Jack’s cheekbone, and pushed back harder I saw memories he’d taken frolad to see Others not asto be a long and painful process

Even so, I took it all

Once I was certain I had everything I needed, I let hio I had e

I stared at him, helpless on the floor, for what felt like an eternity I wondered if taking other people’s memories away from him would leave him with the same kind of empty blackness he caused I could only hope

I used my cast arm to slaain?" I asked, cautiously approaching Lily and Teague

Teague watched Lily begin the process of shutting down the Skroll "Yes"

Lily’s face was carefully coure this out earlier," she began, after looking to Teague for perot it, she continued "I touched every inch of every map in the Skroll, every corner of the whole world I’d started to believe that the Infinityglass wasn’t real, and then so through all the infor that has eluded seekers for a century" Teague took it frolass isn’t a thing"

Now Lily held ue how sorry I was that I couldn’t help her anys"

"Thank you for the inforain, I knohere I can find you And don’t worry I’ll take care of this, for all of us" Teague looked down on an unconscious Jack with a wicked sether

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Lily held ht hand as I approachedhope was encouraging and distracting

"What if it doesn’t work?" My greatest fear

"It will," Dad said "You restored ave me sun shone through the octagonalat the top of the stairs I hadn’t slept all night Dune, Nate, and Ava had regrouped, and were out searching for Michael and Eive up hope

They couldn’t be dead