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Skye, I did soht The vaerous than I previously thought Don’t panic--there’s no reason they should be after you But be cautious I’ll be staying around a while looking into this Stay safe, and good luck on the first day of school

So facts there:

That was Balthazar’s number (Add to contacts--clicked)

Balthazar was the kind of guy who used totally correct spelling and punctuation even when he was texting, which was sort of bizarrely hot She was in serious trouble if coined the vampire attack, but she also apparently had to look out for a whole infestation in town or so to be sticking around, for reasons scary enough that she shouldn’t have felt a s of all: She had to go to school

She started to rise, grabbing for the old clothes she kept nearby for hermuck out of the stables--only to recall that she hadn’t put thehbor Mrs Leflertie choice to leave Eb at hoht stables; at the tiht take so him

Well, that hadn’t worked at all, and now that one si, had anchored her world one And it was a really bad sign of howhorse poo

Skye groaned and covered her head with her pillow Better to face a vaht the first day back at Darby Glen would be bad It turned out she’d been too optimistic

Someone she’d barely known (Kristin? Kirsten?) back in lanced at Skye as she said, "Looks like soot kicked out of her snob school Back doith the little people? Must suck"

"My school … burned down," Skye said, figuring that was as close as she could get to "it was destroyed in a ghost apocalypse" without sounding like a crazy person But then she realized, too late, that correcting that assumption made the rest seeh and the kids ent there Did everyone else think that? Probably

Every hallas hung with co classes, and she happened to glance up just as she went by Dakota’s senior year There he was in his tux, grinning and unaware He’d been the sae then that she was now For the first time she realized that, eventually, she’d be older than Dakota had been when he died

(I’ up! she used to joke with hier than hi closer! It wasn’t funny any Dakota to the back of her mind

Then she had a botto with it for what seeht minutes, she wrenched it open, piled in all her books except for her first two subjects, and stood up to see Craig Weathers