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Panic took hold Miss Peregrine began to screech and Claire to cry as Horace stood and wailed, "This is the end, we’re all going to die!" The rest looked for last-ditch ways to save ourselves Fiona dragged her hands along the wall, searching for crevices that row a vine or soe of the path and peered over the drop-off "We could jump, if only we had a parachute!"

"I can be a parachute!" said Olive "Take hold ofway down, and at the bottoerous forest It was better, Bronwyn decided, to send Olive up the rock face than down the mountain, and with limp, feverish Claire in one arm, Bronwyn led Olive by the hand to the wall "Give me your shoes!" she said to Olive "Take Claire and Miss P and get to the top as quick as you can!"

Olive looked terrified "I don’t know if I’pie! You’re the only one who can keep them safe!" And she knelt and set Claire down on her feet, and the sick girl tottered into Olive’s arht, slipped off her leaden shoes, and then, just as they began to rise, Bronwyn transferred Miss Peregrine frohed down, Olive rose very slowly--it was only when Miss Peregrine began to flap her good wing and pull Olive up by the hair, Olive yelping and kicking her feet, that the three of theround I knew it as surely as if I could see it withthat ht be used as a weapon--but all we could find were pebbles "I can be a weapon," said Eain, an i to life between the his mouth to let them out "They can be fierce when provoked!"

Enoch, who always found a way to laugh at the oing to do," he said, "pollinate it to death?"

Hugh ignored hi to me instead "You’ll be our eyes, Jacob Just tell us where the beast is and we’ll sting his brains out!"

My compass needle of pain toldto fillin fast "Anyto the bend in the path we’d co

We assu with fists raised like boxers, others like sprinters before the starting gun, though no one knehich way to run

"What a depressing and inauspicious end to our adventures," said Horace "Devoured by a hollow in soht they couldn’t enter loops," said Enoch "How the hell did it get in here?"

"It would seeives a chuck how it happened!" Ery!"

Then from above us a small voice cried, "Look out below!" and I craned my neck to see Olive’s face pull back and disappear over the top of the rock wall Aover the ledge It unreeled and snapped taut, and then a net unfurled at the end of it and sain "There’s a lever up here--everyone grab hold of the net and I’ll pull it!"

We ran to the net, but it was tiny, hardly large enough for two Pinned to the rope at eye level was a photograph of a s folded in front of hiround before a sheer rock face--this very rock face On the back of the photo a e was printed:

ONLY ACCESS TO MENAGERIE: CLIMB INSIDE!

WEIGHT LIMIT: ONE RIDER