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"You!" said E ei Andropov, and I am captain of peculiar resistance army Come, I will show you around"

"I kneas peculiar!" Olive said

"No, you didn’t," said Enoch "You only thought he was"

"I knew you were peculiar the second I saw you," said the folding o?"

"Because we’re wily," said Hugh

"He ry," said Enoch "Got any food around here? I could eat an erowled like a wild animal None of us had eaten since our train ride to London, which see man "This way"

We followed him down the hall

"So tell me about this peculiar arhts and take back what’s ours Punish the our yh a wrecked office where people lay sleeping on the floor and under desks As we stepped around thenized a few of their faces fro boy, the frizzy-haired snake-chara door open for us

"And you?" said Millard "Where did you co man led us into a vestibule where we could talk without disturbing the sleepers, a rooe wooden doors enias "I come from land of frozen desert beyond Icy Waste," he said "Hundred years ago, when hollows first born, they strike e killed Old wo motion in the air with his hand "I hide in butter churn, breathe through reed of strahile own brother killed in same house After, I come to London to escape the hollows But they come, too"

"That’s awful," said Bronwyn "I’e," he said, his face darkening

"You mentioned that," said Enoch "How esturing to the room we’d just left

"Six people?!" said Eh or cry

"With you,quick"

"Whoa, whoa, whoa," I said "We didn’t coave me a look that could freeze Hell, then turned and threw open the double doors

We followed hie room dominated by a massive oval table, its wood polished to aplace," the folding man said

All around us were portraits of famous old peculiars, not framed but drawn directly onto the walls in oil and charcoal and grease pencil The one closest toeyes and an openwater fountain Around itsnext to me, translated: "From the mouths of our elders comes a fountain of wisdom"

Nearby was another, this one in Latin "Ardet nec consomitur," Melina said "Burned but not destroyed"

"How fitting," said Enoch