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Mallory nodded "Besides, she’s an alchemical witch This doesn’t feel like alchemy"

Pulaski held up his hand "I’ical mumbo jumbo I’ll leave that to you What I want to knohat, exactly, happened here In detail"

"I’ll walk you through it," Catcher said, and led hi at the spot where we’d rounded the corner sorandfather followed theer in the air He wanted us to keep going, to keep talking it through

"So it’s soic?" Ethan asked

"It has to be," Mallory said "I just don’t knohose, or at least not yet Although there is that weirdback to Mallory "I sensed the saht it was because of the delusions Like, he’d been sick, which gave his nature of soic or creature?"

She shook her head "Not that I’m aware of, but I’ll have to check the books"

"Paige is out of town," Ethan said, "or I’d have her look, too" Paige was a sorceress who practically lived in Cadogan House,to her relationship with our Librarian "The Librarian’s at an ALA conference in New York," Ethan added "She’s with hi the wedding The Librarian had been too excited about the conference--and the books--to be overly concerned

"I can look," Mallory said, glancing at her husband, who stood withto be tied up with this for at least the short ter to blow a fuse," I agreed

"Yeah Probably"

Amit walked over to us "Not the trip to the States I had in lanced at Ethan, concern in his eyes "There is soo, isn’t there?"

"So to fear," Ethan said

"Or in the air," I said, and looked at Mallory "Gabe’s had the sa, you aren’t alone"

She looked understandably relieved and concerned by that information

A reporter had found us, was busily snapping pictures of the carnage, the re party

"Take this picture," Mallory said to hi aside so that Ethan and I stood alone

"If you want the real sense of Cadogan House, get Merit and Ethan after battle Get the shot of theether, bloodied because they tried to oland’s vampires"

With a somber expression, the reporter nodded and aimed his camera at us

CHAPTER NINE