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"It’s not working!" Annabelle yelled out, and now there was fear in her voice

I closed ett was still here--why? Because he wanted to be?

I openedof salt around it, still intact despite the fighting Salt rings werethe barrier would also break the contain to run into a game of double Dutch, I watched hi beneath Padgett’s open arap in the ring

Magic burst across the roo, struck upward toward the ceiling

"No!" Padgett screae wavered

"Return to your plane!" Annabelle yelled

This tiht I’d seen a ghost, the die

"god!" he screae faded

And then there was nothing but darkness After a ain outside

"Not with a bang," I quietly recited, "but a whione?" he asked Annabelle

She nodded "As gone as any of us will be Well," she added with a smirk, "those of us who aren’t immortal"

"We all come to an end," Ethan said "Let’s just hope that we coue

We caift

Luc held up a hand alked into his rooer from his spot in bed "No more ice cream I can’t take any y quite works that way," Ethan said "But just in case, we found so else for you"

"For ift "What is it?"

"A get-well present"

Luc ripped off the paper, stared down at the box he’d unwrapped "You got me an EMF unit?"

"It’s just a starter unit," Ethan said with a san House is quite real, it would pay to have an expert on staff"

Luc looked as happy as a kid with a new bike on Christ

"Consider it an incentive to heal faster," Ethan said "We need you back in the Ops Roo about embroidered polo shirts," I said As I’d hoped, that put a little fire in his eyes

"I’ll be down in an hour," he said, and we left hiet dressed