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He slid down to the floor to sit the night out, and when he did so, his shoe cru

"Did you hear so?" Sa"

"So go make yourself useful and check it out, then"

Alex put a hand over his mouth and nose, as if to silence his own breath He froze, and willed Sa

Saot up and sloalked through the dusky library He rounded a row of shelves, and Alex could hear hiainst He nearly exploded in fear No, no, no, he kept repeating in his head Please, no

Samheed rounded the corner by the toteht of Alex His eyes greide, scared at first, and then they narrowed Alex, tensed and ready to run for it, silently pleaded with Samheed Samheed stood completely still; the two boys’ eyes locked on each other

"Anything over there?" Will called

The totem statue behind Samheed yawned in triplicate And then it cleared its throats

"Just a statue," said Salared at Alex for another moment, and then he turned and went back to his table

There’s a Way

Alex’s body ached fro so still in one place He felt like a swar every which way Will Blair was planning to kill Aaron--not only kill hi his theatrical spells--so that no one in Quill would know the difference How on earth was Alex going to save his brother? He just had to get out of there!

Hours passed, with both Will and Sa on different parts of the door fraroaned, and said, "Can we just call it a night? We’re not going to finish"

"I’ up off the table a bit? We just need to get the rest of it perfect"

"It took us all night just to get that part done! I’o," Will said "If you say anything about "

"Okay, okay," Samheed said His voice sounded hollow "Relax I’m with you"

Will stabbed his pencil into the paper and ripped a tiny hole in it "Blast it!" he roared "This is so frustrating!" He stood up and ran his fingers through his hair, and then began pacing around the table