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His eyes darted away from mine, just a flicker but I knew it for what it was Snap was lying to me, my father was here so Snap as he called after me, and ran from the Spiral to the Ender’s barracks

My footsteps echoed in the large e me to the core There was no one there, not a soul To be sure, I ran through the hallways, checking bedroo about asn’t I so field?

I ran to the healers’ roohtened Had they all died? Was I too late already?

I bolted back the way I’d co that maderedwood rippled The neth bulged as a large wor deeper until the ripple was gone The tree quivered and for a ht I heard a cry of pain

The worms had truly invaded And if they were here in such thick nu anyone I touched ht, that I would be spared long enough to do so field, I wove between the ho

A hand snaked out froed ainst his chest "Be quiet and listen to one and Cassava has taken over She has a Sylph with her, the tall one I re me about a Sylph in your dream with a scar I’lazed over and he stood there as if sorabbed his face That dalow of pink whispered across the whites of his eyes

"Coal, what are you doing?" I shook him and still, he just stood there I shoved hiainst the wall and slid down Unable to snap him out of it, I forced him to sit I may not have wanted to be with him anymore, but that didn’t mean I didn’t care about hie crowd A steady thru out to touch me, like a heartbeat with a stutter I followed it, turned the corner around the last large tree and couldn’t believe as in front ofwe used for large gatherings They coughed and groaned, and their breath gurgled in their lungs, the worots at a buffet

At the center of the clearing Cassava stood, her hands raised above her head, a pink dusting of light sparkling around her entire body So there it was, the finally surety that she was controlling those in our family

But it was the others who keptleft of life in their eyes They were for all intents and purposes, gone Yet I knew they lived, could see their chests rise and fall, could hear the rattling in their lungs that their breathing caused

I duga wor?

Granite was there, standing next to Cassava Ash, Blossom, Mal, and all the other Enders stood a few feet away Why not Snap, why had he been left at the Spiral? He was left behind to guard so