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He hoped the ink wasn’t poisonous He was pretty sure he’d sed soros atching hih no one had ever hly Everyone was silent except the lanky kid who’d been talking to Taain Tamara didn’t crack a slint in her eyes, Call could tell they were sneering at hi
"Calluros in a shocked voice "Please -- please leave the rooroup rejoins you"
Call staggered to his feet, barely registering that the blond boy who’d almost been soaked with ink threw him what looked like a sy as he banged out through the door -- and still picture Taht -- who cared what any of the to be friendly or mean or not? They didn’t matter They weren’t part of his life None of this was
Just a few more hours He repeated it to hi his best to scrub off the ink with powdered soap and rough paper towels He wondered if the ink was ical It sure wanted to stick Some of it had dried in his black hair, and there were still dark blue handprints on his white shirt when he e for hi to one another about "the freak with the ink"
"Nice look with the shirt," the boy with the black hair said He looked rich to Call, rich like Tamara He couldn’t have said why exactly, but his clothes were the kind of tailored casual-fancy that cost a lot of money "For your sake, I hope the next test doesn’t involve explosions Or, oh, wait -- I hope it does"
"Shut up," Call reatest coainst the wall until Master Milagros, reappearing, called theroups of five, directing each group down a corridor and telling them to wait at the other end Call had no idea how the airplane hangar ed to house such a network of hallways He suspected it was one of those things his father would say he was better off not thinking about
"Calluroup, which also contained, to his dismay, the black-haired boy, whose name turned out to be Jasper deWinter, and the blond boy he’d spattered ink on earlier, as Aaron Stewart Jasperher luck before he sauntered over to join his group Once there, he i his back on Call as if Call didn’t exist
The other two kids in Call’s new group were Kylie Myles and a nervous-looking girl na mass of dirty blond hair and had clipped a blue flower behind her bangs
"Hey, Kylie," Call said, thinking noas the perfect opportunity to warn her that the picture of the Magisteriu for theood authority that the real caves were full of dead ends and eyeless fish
She looked apologetic "Would youoff down the hall, and Call lied "You kno it is I’oing to help Sorry!" She skipped ahead, catching up with Jasper and Aaron Call stared at the back of her head as if he could drill into it with anger
"I hope the eyeless fish eat you!" he called after her She pretended not to hear
Master Milagros led thee roo, and froh over their heads Next to the ball was a long rope ladder ooden rungs that reached from the roof to brush the floor
This was ridiculous He couldn’t cli these tests on purpose, not being so terrible at theic school in the first place