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"Youspeech," said Millard, "and I hate to spoil it, but for all we know, Miss Peregrine is the only ymbryne left uncaptured Recall what Miss Avocet told us: the wights have been raiding loops and abducting ymbrynes for weeks now Which means that even if we could find a loop, there’d be no way of knohether it still had its ymbryne--or was occupied instead by our ene they aren’t full of wights"

"Or surrounded by half-starved hollows," Enoch said

"We won’t have to hope," Emma said, then smiled in my direction "Jacob will tell us"

My entire body went cold "Me?"

"You can sense hollows fro the to puke," I admitted

"How close do they have to be?" asked Millard "If it’s only a few e We’d need you to sense them from much farther away"

"I haven’t exactly tested it," I said "This is all so new to me"

I’d only ever been exposed to Dr Golan’s hollow, Malthus--the creature who’d killedHow far away had he been when I’d first felt hilewood? It was iardless, your talent can be developed," said Millard "Peculiarities are a bit like row"

"This is madness!" Enoch said "Are you all really so desperate that you’d stake everything on him? Why, he’s just a boy--a soft-bellied nor of our world!"

"He isn’t nor as if this were the direst insult "He’s one of us!"

"Stuff and rubbish!" yelled Enoch "Just because there’s a dash of peculiar blood in his veins doesn’t make him my brother And it certainly doesn’t make him my protector! We don’t knohat he’s capable of--he probably wouldn’t know the difference between a hollow at fifty as pains!"

"He killed one of theh the eyes with a pair of sheep shears! When’s the last ti like that?"

"Not since Abe," Hugh said, and at the mention of his name a reverent hush fell over the children

"I heard he once killed one with his bare hands," said Bronwyn

"I heard he killed one with a knitting needle and a length of twine," said Horace "In fact, I dreamed it, so I’m certain he did"