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Her phone dinged onea final text fro desperately that she wasn’t blushing, Balthazar said, "Why did you want to be alone?"
"Huh?" She had to backtrack past her overheated thoughts about Balthazar to re about "Oh, this afternoon My first day back at school just--it wasn’t good Although now that I co repeatedly attacked by vah?" He frowned, looking genuinely concerned, like bad tih could possibly coain, she was going to have to go back tohed "Someone died in o, I mean But I can still see it" The horror had been buried under the sheer panic of the afternoon, but noelled up again, cold and bright "I’uy die of a heart attack every single day"
"Can you transfer out of that class?"
"Maybe I’ll have to check" Evernight Academy hadn’t allowed transfers; she had no idea what the rules were here
"The effect could stop over time, or lose power,every … death place I’ve found, so I haven’t tested that It feels like it’s always going to happen You’re right, though I don’t know I guess anatoure out a way for you to ift"
"That would help," she admitted "But it’s not the worst part about school The rest sucks, too I mean, I fell out of touch with ht Now they all think I’ to do with Darby Glen"
"They’ll see past that," Balthazar said gently "And there lad to see"
A luht about the only person from before who had really counted "Well, I saw irlfriend So you can iine how erated face of pain that she had to laugh despite herself "This is the guy who duht?"
"How did you know about that?" She hadn’t thought Balthazar More paid ht Acade tabs on her love life
"Lucas told us He was nervous about asking you to the ball just as a friend Sounds like this Craig guy has rotten ti her constant boyfriend for two and a half years, then du her for someone else only a couple months after they’d had sex for the first and only time--and not even half a year after her brother’s death: Yeah, that counted as rotten tiet him," Balthazar said siuy who doesn’t appreciate you isn’t worth keeping"
Which sounded liketoo erher eyes Skye didn’t knohether to feel aard or elated; she knew only that it was impossible to look away froainst the dark, frost-ri Lacing over the entire --on the inside of the , too, turning everything white, blinding out the night
The sudden chill in the air htly around herself as the cold beca, but the light didn’t die out Instead it changed into an eerie blue-green color that seemed to shimmer, almost as if they were underwater
She remembered one of Dakota’s last photos from Australia, a scene from an underwater cave, and she wondered if this hat he’d seen before he died Terror and sorrow seized her at the sa started to move
"Oh, my God" Skye backed toward Balthazar; she didn’t knoas happening, but knew she wanted hiot a lot safer"
Startled, she looked up at hiiven theon the ceiling broke free, ca shape, like a cyclone of snowflakes, but then it acquired the forentle eyes--but not just any woman Balthazar said her name first: "Bianca"
"I like your room," Bianca said "It reminds me a little of the one I had back in my hometown"
Skye, still not sure she was able to speak, nodded Bianca seemed to understand her shyness; at any rate, she didn’t press Skye for rinning at her He said, "I’lad you could make it I didn’t really have a plan B"
"You usually co herself up on theseat beside Balthazar Bianca seemed more at ease in her pajamas than Skye was in hers--and more comfortable with Balthazar, too