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"I need to observe her for a little while I need tiht the Infinityglass was and what it truly is and to finish translating and studying all the information on the Skroll"

"Then we’ll wait until you know so solid I don’t want to scare her with half-truths" He stood, and so did Liam and I "If Liam says you’re my best option, I’ll believe hilass I knohat you stand for and what you do But if you prove hi …"

Girard left the threat unspoken

And somehow that was scarier than if he’d said it aloud

Chapter 3

Hallie, Mid-Nove a paid vacation

I didto break it up except dance class three times a week, and I didn’t even leave the house for that Dad had converted a detached building on our property into s were lonely Boring

But not norht Poe and I did the job at Skeevy’s It all started with the jazz funeral in the graveyard

I’d known the tiht, and anyway, sunlight surrounded the ate of the ceht past the waiters and waitresses from Commander’s Palace, but none of the waitstaff had noticed New Orleans ladies were known for good hats, but the shoes and outfits rong Too many prints Boxy purses and heels

Then, the next day fro touches on the Saint Charles Avenue line, which had already existed for almost two hundred years Gone were the Mardi Gras beads that usually hung frorass that lined either side of the rails I saw freshly turned dirt, and the southern live oaks that lined the street ay smaller than they were supposed to be The streetcars were new and shiny, standing like soldiers awaiting their chance to serve the city

The next day, froentle

I knehat I was seeing, but I didn’t knohy

Years ago, my mom had found a set of twins in the foster care system She’d hooked them up with a family far out in the bayou A family that ell compensated and therefore didn’t mind when the twins accidentally shorted out electrical appliances A family that wasn’t privy to the fact that As have been lost throughout time The Titanic sank with untold riches on board The Aest art heists of all time had yet to yield their spoils That was how tiway’s first wife, Hadley, walked away from a suitcase full of his manuscripts at Paris Lyon to buy a bottle of water, Amelia and Zooey popped in The suitcase was lost to history, but the as was thought to be lost in a fire, but miraculously appeared in the collection of a certain family that lived on Esplanade

And so on and so forth

A time-travel side effect was that Amelia and Zooey saw ripples all the tiht it was cool They started describing theet on my nerves Now people like me, who shouldn’t be able to see rips, could