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Jaw clenched, Cruce joined us, closed the door andentry, heavily bolted into the walls on sides and top, and sunk deep into the floor

"But a Fae could get past that, couldn’t it?" I said

"Fae are not ‘its,’ MacKayla, we are ‘hes’ and ‘shes,’ " he said tightly "And technically you are one of us now" But he pal blue-black rune and eate "This will do For the tiot the princess," Jada said

"She’s bound in the cocoon, now doubly trapped," Barrons replied grimly "Every minute counts Multiplied exponentially in this bloody place Run"

We ran

MAC

We returned to a completely different New Dublin, one run with near-militant efficiency by Ryodan

Our stay in the White Mansion had cost us thirty-five days, Earth time

When Ryodan returned from wherever he was reborn, he discovered the six of us, Barrons, Jada, Fade, Lor, Cruce, and I, had beenfor a week With no idea what had happened to us or where we’d gone, he turned his attention to our pressing problem: the black holes that continued to expand slowly but relentlessly, growing inexorably nearer to the ground

No one had any idea ould happen if one of the black holes made contact with the soil We didn’t fully understand the physics of the black holes we’d discovered in space and no one knew if ours were even the sa Dancer was convinced they were a total wild card, differing widely fro black holes Some people theorized it would eat sloay at the soil, soe area, while others insisted the entire Earth would be destroyed at a fairly rapid pace until it for the hole to consume it at its leisure

Since the Fae queen had a profound connection to the Fae power nestled deep in the earth, I was certain her estione rateful Ryodan had thrown himself into the issue of the black holes with the sa

In our absence he’d befriended Dancer, or rather coenius to report to hie, where a crew of thirty of the finest led with theoretical physics and music theory, in an effort to fatho

"Ryodan’s been spending hours a day with the French-Lebanese sidhe-seer who’d stepped up to the plate at the abbey in Jada’s absence She’d banged in the door of the bookstore about one minute after Jada and I arrived, as I’d been onsans guts, blood, and gray ht back down, and now sat in the ht us up to date "Absorbing their theories, posing challenging questions, pushing their minds even further outside the box Dancer’s opinion of Ryodan has certainly changed"