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I hesitated I had lied to everyone in order to hide the fact that I’d spent the night at Dante’s But someone had to know the truth I needed Nathaniel’s help "No It was actually theof Grub Day"

Nathaniel looked confused "What? But why did you tell everyone that--"

I cut hiht with Dante," I said quickly "Please don’t tell anyone"

Nathaniel went silent "So you don’t knohen she disappeared?"

I shook my head

"This is bad, Renée Really bad"

I sed "I know"

"Well, if we assume that whatever happened to her happened on Grub Day, then it couldn’t have been Professor Bliss I even saw hi the boys’ dorms, so either way, he’s safe"

"Why do you think it happened on Grub Day?"

"I mean, think about it It’s perfect Everyone is in town, including most of the professors and the Board of Monitors So the real question is, asn’t in Attica Falls that day?" But the question was impossible to answer There were far tootrack

"Do you think it could be" My voice trailed off

"The Gottfried Curse?" Nathaniel said, finishing my sentence "Maybe"

When alked into class, Annette LaBarge was sitting on her desk, her legs dangling freely like a child on a swing A glass of water sat by her side Unlikeas if it were a story

"A long tis--the body and the soul When the body died, the soul lived on and was cleansed and reborn into soh namely in Western culture by Plato, and then René Descartes

"Descartes was a famous philosopher in his time He was obsessed with death--he wrote about it incessantly He even clai to reveal his secret in an essay he claimed would be his lifetime achievement, and which he worked on up until his death He called it his Seventh Meditation When he died, people believed that his death was a hoax, an experiht he had found a way to cheat death and become reborn