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His fingers dug into e "A lot of terrible things went down tonight"

"Yes, they did Good reason to claim a stake on life, don’t you think?"

"All I can think about is trying to stop this"

"Are you saying you don’t want to kissat histo tell me no?"

"Yes, I want to kiss you I’m not insane And who could possibly tell you no?"

I had time to smile before his kisses burned down the column of my throat, across my collarbone He took ht my mouth down to his

I let myself sink into the kiss, into him

When he rolled me over and covered ht he was so quiet, sneaking out of bed When a 220-pound weight lifted, a girl noticed

I’d slept enough, but I stayed quiet, letting him think I was still out cold I had a lot to think about, and he’d spent a good part of the past hour ht at all

When he shut the door behind him, I opened my eyes His laptop was open on my desk I didn’t hesitate

I clicked on the external hard drive that held all the Infinityglass info I didn’t look at anything else on his computer I didn’t want to invade his privacy I just wanted a quick look at the things that pertained to me that I hadn’t seen yet No one could fault that

Especially if I didn’t get caught

There were carefully labeled folders organized by year, and one with the words time-related objects underneath I found other folders with lists of links, articles scanned from old newspapers, and thulass in a frame made out of human bones It had been stolen fros I’d never seen or heard of, and while soht ridiculous I kept ski until I found a folder with my initials on it, and then I was overco of anxiety that arrives when you’re seeing so

Three other names occupied my desktop file, each with folders of their own

Two females, one irls helped on an archeological dig that took place around the tiy The other worked on a fardo but a name and a GPS location

I scanned the rest of the inforibberish to me I closed out the hard drive and saw a minimized document I’d missed before It didn’t even have a title, so itwhen I woke up

There were notes about activation, with raphs written in another language: what looked like Arabic or Egyptian There were also photographs of hieroglyphs

Attempted translations were directly below the pictures, and one phrase in bold jue

I read it Twice

And went to find Dune

Dune

I’d tried to be quiet getting out of bed Hallie needed rest, but there was no way I was sleeping after tonight

I went down to grab a drink and found Poe in the kitchen

"Popsicles again?" I asked

"Picked them up on the way over, after you called" He shut the freezer door and ot us out, Poe We’d still be in that alley without her" I stepped around hi clicked for ht Have you seen the section of the Skroll about the Infinityglass and the transfer of abilities?"