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"Your eyes don’t irl said "False lenses are the oldest trick in the book--and trust irl took a step toward us, into the light Hate smoldered in her eyes She was tomboyish, except for the dress, with short hair and a lassy look of so now on instinct and adrenaline Someone in that condition wouldn’t be kind to us, nor patient

"We are peculiar, I swear!" Emma said "Watch--I’ll show you!" She lifted one hand from her head and was about to rab her wrist

"If there are hollows close by, they’ll sense it," I said "I think they can feel us kind of like I feel them--but it’soff an alar your power," she said, irritated "And she’s using hers!"

"Mine is passive," I said "I can’t turn it off, so it doesn’t leave much of a trail As for her--maybe they already know she’s here Maybe it’s not her they want"

"How convenient!" the girl said toshadow creatures?"

"He can see them, too," said Emma "And kill them"

"You need to invent better lies," the girl said "No one with half a brain would buy that"

Just as ere talking about it, a new Feeling blosso the left-behind residue of a hollow, but the active presence of one

"There’s one nearby," I said to Eet out of here"

"Not without the bird," she irl started across the rooiven you inning to enjoy killing you things After what you did to h of it!"

She stopped a few feet fro as left of the roof down on our heads,tofrom my crouched position, threwher to the floor She cried out in angry surprise I rammed my fist into the palain She let the bird go, and E toward the open door Horace was still on the floor in a daze "Get up and run!" E Horace up by his arms when the door slammed in my face and a burned dresser lifted out of the corner and flew across the roo, taking E I was certain we had only seconds to live Then Horace stood up and shouted at the top of his lungs:

"Melina Manon!"

The girl froze "What did you say?"

"Your na in 1899 You came to live with Miss Thrush when you were sixteen years old, and have been here ever since"

Horace had caught her off guard She frowned, thenmotion with her hand The dresser that had nearly knocked h the air and then stopped, hovering, directly above Horace If she let it drop, it would crush hiht could know er find your deceptions interesting"

And yet, she didn’t quite seem ready to kill hi quickly

"Your ly of onions, a lifelong condition she could do nothing to cure"