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"Eyes! I know" Erinned "But don’t tell Michael I know"

"Our secret" I grinned back at her I could get used to a girlfriend "He doesn’t make any demands on , and responds to that He’s a look on her face "I knew it I even told Michael"

"Told hi"

I didn’t knohat to say to that or whether to address it at all, so I changed the subject "What did Michael want to talk to Dune about?"

E on the Skroll He wouldn’t tell me what"

"That means it’s serious," I said

"Probably"

"Then I say it’s time we crash the party"

Dune

Hallie and Eh the kitchen They all found seats and looked aton?" Hallie asked as she looked around "Must be pretty big if we’re about to have a group conversation"

"It’s a group problem" I didn’t waste any time "It’s about the rip situation, and the fact that every tih an enormous nureat for the complexion," Hallie deadpanned She went pale when no one even cracked a set of infory fro that allows you to close the rifts in tiy could transfer to the space time continuum We think you can heal it"

"I’m all in What do I have to do?" Hallie asked

I wished I could let the hope shining on her face last for more than thirty seconds "It’s not that sied to close the rips while you were outside theain in the shape of a frown "I have to go inside a rip to close it"

"We don’t know anything for certain," I explained "We don’t even know if it ork"

"But it could" She sat on the edge of the coffee table "If I had the power to undo all the dao away"

Michael nodded "That’s e think"

Footsteps thundered down the stairs Poe swung into the living roo in front of Hallie, his face haggard "It’s my fault I’ about?" She stood and reached for Poe’s arm "Sit down You look terrible"

"I finally found the answer on the Skroll" He shook her off and kept talking "At first, I thought so you’d touched on a job or even soht I pulled you into the veil and teleported you"

"You teleported Hallie?" I asked

"No one is supposed to go in veils but ti to Poe withouthis eyes No love lost between those two