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"In the attic," said the smaller

"What attic?" said Eether, and raising their are They seemed to speak cooperatively, and if a sentence was , one would start and the other finish, with no detectable pause between I also noticed that whenever one was speaking and the other wasn’t, the quiet one would mouth the other’s words in perfect synchronicity--as if they shared one mind

"Could you please show us the way to your house?" asked Emma "Take us to your attic?"

Joel-and-Peter shook their heads and shrank back into the dark

"What’s the o?"

"Death and blood!" cried one boy

"Blood and screa!" cried the other

"Screaether

"Cheerio!" said Horace, turning on his heels "I’ll see you all back in the crypt Hope I don’t get squashed by a boht Horace by his sleeve "Oh, no you don’t! You’re the only one of us who’s eons"

"Didn’t you hear them?" Horace said "That loop is full of shadows that bite--which could onlyHollows!"

"It was full of theo"

"When was the last time you were inside your house?" Emma asked the boys

Their loop had been raided, they explained in their strange and broken way, but they’dthe bones How long ago that was, they couldn’t say Two days? Three? They’d lost all track of time down here in the dark

"Oh, you poor dears!" said Bronwyn "What terrors you must’ve endured!"

"You can’t stay here forever," said Ee forward if you don’t reach another loop soon We can help you--but first we have to catch a pigeon"

The boys gazed into one another’s spinning eyes and see a word They said in unison, "Follow us"

They slid down froe

We followed I couldn’t take ly odd They kept their arms linked at all ti sounds with their tongues

"What are they doing?" I whispered

"I believe that’s how they see," said Millard "It’s the same way bats see in the dark The sounds they s and then back to them, which forms a picture in their minds"