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He couldn’t see with him?" said Bronwyn "Mill, what’s the ht nohat you ly

"Because we’ll die, that’s why!" Millard said, his voice breaking

"But back at the erie you made it sound so easy!" I said

"Like we could just waltz into a punish, hysterical--and it scaredand told him to breathe into it When he’d recovered a bit, he answered

"Getting into one is easy enough," he said, speaking sloorking to control his breaths "Getting out again is trickier Getting out alive, I should say Punish said and worse Rivers of fire … bloodthirsty Vikings … pestilence so thick you can’t breathe … and mixed into all that, like sohts and hollowgast!"

"Well, that’s fantastic!" said Horace, tossing up his hands

"You erie, ere planning all this!"

"Would it have made any difference, Horace?" He took a few htening, would you have chosen to sirine’s humanity expire?"

"Of course not," said Horace "But you should’ve told us the truth"

Millard let the bag drop His strength was returning, and his conviction with it "I aders But I never thought we’d actually have to go into the about the state of London, I was certain we’d find at least one unraided loop here, its ymbryne still present and accounted for And for all we knoe may still! How can we be sure they’ve all been kidnapped? Have we seen their raided loops with our own eyes? What if the ymbrynes’ phones were simply … disconnected?"

"All of them?" Enoch scoffed

Even Olive, eternally optiest, Millard?" said Emma "That we tour London’s loops and hope to find someone still at home? And ould you say the odds are that the corrupted, who are looking for us, would leave all those loops unguarded?"

"I think we’d have a better chance of surviving the night if we spent it playing Russian roulette," said Enoch

"All I mean," Millard said, "is that we have no proof …"

"What more proof do you want?" said Emma "Pools of blood? A pile of plucked yan here weeks ago Miss Wren clearly believed that all of London’s ymbrynes had been kidnapped--do you know better than Miss Wren, an ymbryne herself? And noe’re here, and none of the loops are answering their telephones So please, tellother than a suicidally dangerous waste of time"

"Wait a minute--that’s it!" Millard exclaimed "What about Miss Wren?"

"What about her?" said E told us? Miss Wren cao, when she heard that her sister ymbrynes had been kidnapped"

"So?"